Ain Ul Faqr English PDF

AIN-UL-FAQR
English Translation with Persian Text

AIN-UL-FAQR
English Translation with Persian Text
Author
Sultan-ul-Arifeen
Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo
Translated
Mrs. Ambreen Moghees Sarwari Qadri
M.A. Mass Communication
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CONTENT
Page
Preface 8
Short Biography of Sultan-ul-Arifeen Hazrat Sakhi
Sultan Bahoo 12
Ain-ul-Faqr English Translation 17
Chapter I Explanation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the
levels of Fana Fillah and Divine Oneness 54
Chapter II Discussion about the Theophanies and
detail of the stages of nafs, Satan and
everything other than Allah 69
Chapter III Discussion about Murshid and the seeker
of Allah and Faqr Fana Fillah Baqa Billah 83
Chapter IV Discussion about opposing and dominating
the nafs with the help of Allah 100
Chapter V Discussion about Scholars, Faqeers and
the zikr of Allah-The Exalted, Worthy
and Great 130
Chapter VI Discussion about muraqbah, spiritual
observation, dreams and their interpretation
and absorption in Divine Oneness being
Fana Fillah 157
Chapter VII The secret and loud zikr of Allah and kalma
tayyab by tongue, heart, soul and sir‟r 187
Chapter VIII Discussion about Divine love, Ishq, Faqr
Fana Fillah, Divine union and the spiritual
states 213
Chapter IX Discussion about wine, the reality of
Friends of Allah and renouncing
everything other than Allah 238
Chapter X Discussion about Fana Fillah Faqr and
renouncing the world and everything
other than Allah 263
Glossary 288
Dedicated to my Murshid
Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen
Khadim Sultan-ul-Faqr Hazrat Sakhi
Sultan Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman
Without his favour and kindness
I am nothing
PREFACE
Ain-ul-Faqr (The soul of Faqr) is the most popular book by

Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo which explains the path of Faqr in
the easiest way. Sultan Bahoo has used a very simple language in
this book, contrary to his style in other books, so that the Divine
message conveyed in this book is understood by everyone. The
gist of all the books of Sultan Bahoo mainly comprises of five
topics:
(a) Signs of perfect Murshid and importance of following him to
reach Allah.
(b) Invocation and contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat under the
guidance of perfect Murshid.
(c) Life of heart and death of desires of nafs.
(d) Gaining presence of holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad.
(e) Acquiring marifat, vision and union of Allah.
All these topics are most pleasantly, effectively and explicitly
explained in Ain-ul-Faqr. This book can not only be considered
the soul of Faqr but the soul of Islam as it guides its readers
towards the closeness, vision and union of Allah which is the
soul of all obligatory prayers of Islam as well as the main aim
behind the creation of mankind.
Sultan Bahoo has conveyed the Divine message to the masses
in Persian language which was the ruling language in his era. This
treasure needed to be transferred in other languages specially
English which is the internationally known language in this age.
Although many efforts have been made to translate his books in
Urdu by different individuals and institutions but no effort has
ever been made to convert all his books in English. Just a few
books have been translated in English, which are just literal
translations and do not convey the spirit and the true message
given in the original book. Nowadays, those few translations are
also unavailable. Job of a translator is not to convey the words of
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the writer to the readers but to convey the soul behind the words
and make it easy for the reader to understand the essence of the
original book. To understand a Saint‟s book whose caliber is
beyond one's imagination like that of Hazrat Sultan Bahoo, is not
possible unless one gets inwardly purgated and guided by a
perfect and accomplished Murshid who elevates one to the
spiritual heights where it becomes possible to understand the
Divine message behind the apparent words.
I am really fortunate that my perfect and accomplished Murshid
Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen Khadim Sultan-ul-Faqr Hazrat Sakhi Sultan
Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman Madzillah-ul-Aqdus conferred upon
me the opportunity to translate Sultan Bahoo‟s books. Sultan
Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman is the present Spiritual Leader of
the Sarwari Qadri Order of Sultan Bahoo and his true spiritual
descendant. He is a man of spiritual powers and remarkable
caliber. He has done immense efforts to spread the Order and
teachings of Sultan Bahoo. He has written twenty one books on
mysticism and spirituality most of which are based on Sultan
Bahoo‟s teachings. His book Shams-ul-Fuqara is an encyclopedia
of Sultan Bahoo‟s teachings. Under his guidance, all the books
of Sultan Bahoo are not only being translated in Urdu in a much
better way than the previous translations but also in English for
the first time so as to spread his message worldwide.
For the translation of Ain-ul-Faqr he provided the following
manuscripts:
1. Manuscript written by Gul Mohammad Sindhi in 1336 Hijri.
2. Manuscript written by Faqeer Abdul Hakeem in 1348 Hijri,
present in Masood Jhandir Research Library Mailsi, Pakistan.
3. Manuscript written by Faqeer Noor Muhammad Kulachvi in
1332 Hijri.
4. Manuscript found from Jackobabad Sindh, Pakistan in 1977.
This manuscript also includes some other books by Sultan
Bahoo i.e. Majalisa-tul-Nabi, Mohabbat-ul-Asrar, Fazal-ul-
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Laqa, Sultan-ul-Waham, Deedar Bakhsh, Ain-ul-Arifeen and

few other books whose names are either not clearly mentioned
or not confirmed. The writer‟s name is not mentioned on this
manuscript.
5. Manuscript written by Faqeer Syed Abdullah, year of writing
is not mentioned.
My fellow disciple Hafiz Hammad-ur-Rehman Sarwari Qadri
who has translated Ain-ul-Faqr in Urdu consulted all these
manuscripts to deduce a proper Persian script of Ain-ul-Faqr. I
am thankful to him for providing me the same script.
The printed Persian text of Ain-ul-Faqr is also given by a few
of its Urdu translators alongwith the translation, who are:
1. Maulvi Nizamuddin Multani who did the translation in 1347
Hijri. His book is not available now.
2. Doctor K.B. Naseem, first edition published in March, 1993
A.D.
3. Saad Ameer Khan Niazi, first edition of his book was
published in 1993 A.D and second in 2011 A.D.
The book in hand is the first ever English translation of Ain-ul-
Faqr alongwith its Persian text. Earlier, Professor Syed Ahmad
Saeed Hamdani did its translation but that was printed without
the Persian text. It is essential to give the Persian text alongwith
the translation so that there remains no doubt in the authenticity
of the translation. The original Persian text is not only saved in
this way but can also be benefitted by the future translators.
The writing style of Sultan Bahoo is very pleasant, poetic and
effective. Frequent use of verses and Hadiths not only authenticate
his words but also make them more influential. He uses
homophones which give a poetic touch to prose, but while
translation it becomes impossible to carry that touch due to change
of language. So, the effect of his words cannot be delivered as
beautifully as it was in the original language. Moreover, his
words have so deep and elevated meaning due to his own supreme
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spiritual status that no one can convey them fully. A meek

person like me can only try to do so. May Allah accept my effort
and forgive me for the lapses. (Amin)
I hereby thank my fellow disciples Rashid Gulzar Sarwari
Qadri for composing the Persian text and Ahsan Ali Sarwari Qadri
for composing the English text and correcting the Arabic text
included in the book. I would also like to thank my spouse as
well as fellow disciple Mohammad Moghees Afzal Sarwari
Qadri for reviewing this book and giving precious suggestions to
improve it.
My holy Murshid Sultan Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman says,
 Sultan Bahoo‟s writings are so persuasive and influential
that they completely envelop the reader. If his books are read
respectfully after ablution, an ocean of beneficence pours
down upon the reader. If a reader continues reading them
with a true and sincere heart, he will be guided towards a
perfect Sarwari Qadri Murshid who is the representative of
Sultan Bahoo in the present age. (The Spiritual Guides of Sarwari
Qadri Order, English Version of Mujtaba Akhir Zamani)
It is hoped that this precious book by Sultan Bahoo will be

read with a true intention to follow its teachings and to derive
spiritual beneficence from it.
Lahore Mrs. Ambreen Moghees Sarwari Qadri

October-2016 M.A Mass Communication
University of the Punjab
SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF
SULTAN-UL-ARIFEEN HAZRAT SAKHI
SULTAN BAHOO
Sultan-ul-Arifeen Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo was born on

Thursday, the 1st of Jamadi-us-Sani in 1039 H (17 January,
1630 A.D) at dawn, in the reign of mughal emperor Shah Jahan
in Shorkot, District Jhang, Pakistan (then India). He belonged to
the “Awan” tribe of the progeny of Hazrat Ali Bin Abu Talib.
Awans are Hazrat Ali‟s children from wives other than Hazrat
Fatima Razi Allah Anha. Sultan Bahoo‟s father Bazayd
Mohammad was a soldier by profession and a titleholder in Shah
Jahan‟s army. His mother, Bibi Rasti was a Saintly woman. She
was spiritually informed of Sultan Bahoo‟s grandeur and
spiritual status before his birth and according to his status of
Fana-Fi-Hoo (annihilation in Hoo) his name Bahoo (One with
Hoo ) was revealed to her.
Sultan Bahoo says:
Meaning: Bahoo‟s mother named him Bahoo because Bahoo has

always remained with Hoo .
Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo was a Wali (Saint, Friend of Allah)
by birth. He remained engrossed in heavenly experiences and
spiritual triumphs from his early age. Sultan Bahoo gained his
early mystic and spiritual education from his mother. A non
Muslim would immediately recite kalma and accept Islam if his
eyes fell upon the Divine face of Sultan Bahoo, such was the
intensity of the Divine theophanies radiating from him.
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Sultan Bahoo states in his books, “I searched for a Murshid1

for thirty years but in vain”. It was because he already held such
elevated levels of Faqr where access of anyone is extremely
arduous. Sultan Bahoo relates one of his revelations in his books
that one day, engrossed in Allah‟s vision, he was wandering in
the suburbs of Shorkot when Hazrat Ali Bin Abu Talib came and
took him to the holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad where the
four pious Caliphs, sacred Family (Ahl-e-Bait) of Prophet
Mohammad and Hazrat Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani were also
present. There, Sultan Bahoo took bayat2 at the sacred hand of
Prophet Mohammad who entrusted him to Hazrat Shaikh Abdul
Qadir Jilani for further spiritual guidance. That is why Hazrat
Sakhi Sultan Bahoo always refers Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani as
his Murshid in his books. He says, “When Ghaus-ul-Azam
Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani blessed me spiritually, I surpassed all
the spiritual levels from eternal beginning till eternal end.”
Afterwards, following the orders of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani,
Sultan Bahoo took bayat at the hand of Shaikh Pir Abdul
Rehman Jilani Dehlvi who entrusted the Divine Trust of Faqr to
Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo in just a single meeting.
The splendour of Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo is beyond anyone‟s
speculation. He is blessed with the extremities of Faqr and
stationed at the status of Sultan-ul-Faqr V. He says, “The Holy
Prophet has ordered me to guide everyone, Muslim or non
Muslim, fortunate or unfortunate, alive or dead and he has entitled
me as Mustafa Sani (Mustafa the second) and Mujtaba Akhir
Zamani (Mujtaba of the last era) with his pearl divulging tongue.”
(Risala Roohi Sharif)
The spiritual order of Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo is the Sarwari

Qadri order. The Qadri order reaches Prophet Mohammad through
1
The spiritual guide
2
Oath of allegiance-When a person becomes a disciple, he hands over himself to his
spiritual guide in exchange of spiritual guidance after bayat. This in fact is a pact between
Allah and His slave which eternally bonds the Murshid with his disciple.
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Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani. There are two offshoots of Qadri

order, Zahidi Qadri and Sarwari Qadri. Hazrat Sakhi Sultan
Bahoo considers only the Sarwari Qadri order the proper and real
Qadri order. He says:
 Qadri order has two off shoots, Zahidi Qadri and Sarwari
Qadri. Sarwari Qadri Murshid has perfect command over
Ism-e-Allah Zaat (The personal name of Allah which
represents the Divine Essence and all His attributes) that is
why, when he blesses a seeker with the Divinity of Ism-e-
Allah Zaat, he grants him an equal status of his own. Thus,
the seeker becomes so indifferent to all needs and completely
resigned to Allah‟s will that gold and soil become equal for
him. On the contrary, the follower of Zahidi Qadri order has
to devote at least twelve years to very hard mystic struggles,
then Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani helps him and elevates him
to the status of majzoob3 devotee, while the status of a Sarwari
Qadri devotee is that of belovedness. (Kaleed-ul-Tauheed Kalan)
He describes the status of Sarwari Qadri Murshid and devotees
in these words:
 What is the initial status of an accomplished Sarwari Qadri
Murshid? It is that he elevates the seeker spiritually on the
very first day, with his one glance and zikr (invocation) of
Ism-e-Allah Zaat, to such heights that the seeker is completely
drowned in the Divine union and finds presence in the holy
assembly of Prophet Mohammad. The Murshid who cannot
do this, is not a proper Sarwari Qadri. (Kaleed-ul-Tauheed)
Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo himself holds this status. He says:
3
The devotee who cannot tolerate the effects of Divine light and loses his senses.
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Meaning: For every true seeker of Allah I render my guidance. I

can take him from the initial stage of the spiritual journey to the
final and supreme level in just a moment. Come to me! Come to
me! Come to me O‟ seeker of Allah! I can take you to Allah on
the very first day.
Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo could not avail the opportunity to
receive formal academic education because he was ever absorbed
in the deep ocean of Divine unity, even then he has written 140
books. All of his books are in Persian except the collection of his
poetry which is in the form of Punjabi quatrains.
Sultan Bahoo‟s books are masterpieces of the Divine knowledge.
He proclaims that if anyone could not find a Murshid, his books
will prove to be a medium for him to reach the perfect Sarwari
Qadri Murshid who will guide him to Allah.
Sultan Bahoo‟s writing style is very simple and easy to
understand even for a less educated person. His writings are so
persuasive and influential that they envelop the reader completely.
If his books are read respectfully after ablution, an ocean of
spiritual beneficence pours down to the reader. If a reader
continues reading them with complete faith and true heart, he will
be guided towards the perfect Sarwari Qadri Murshid who is the
real spiritual successor of Sultan Bahoo in the present age.
Translations of Sultan Bahoo‟s following books are available
in the market:
(1) Abyat-e-Bahoo (Punjabi Poetry) (2) Dewan-e-Bahoo (Persian
Poetry) (3) Ain-ul-Faqr (4) Majalisa-tul-Nabi (5) Kaleed-ul-
Tauheed (Kalan) (6) Kaleed-ul-Tauheed (Khurd) (7) Shams-ul-
Arifeen (8) Ameer-ul-Kaunain (9)Taigh-e-Barhana (10) Risala
Roohi Sharif (11) Ganj-ul-Asrar (12) Mahak-ul-Faqr (Khurd)
(13) Mahak-ul-Faqr (Kalan) (14) Asrar-e-Qadri (15) Aurang
Shahi (16) Jamay-ul-Asrar (17) Aqal-e-Baydar (18) Fazal-ul-Laqa
(Khurd) (19) Fazal-ul-Laqa (Kalan) (20) Miftah-ul-Arifeen (21)
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Noor-ul-Huda (Khurd) (22) Noor-ul-Huda (Kalan) (23) Taufeeq-

ul-Hidayat (24) Qurb-e-Deedar (25) Ain-ul-Arifeen (26) Kaleed-
e-Jannat (27) Mohkim-ul-Fuqara (28) Sultan-ul-waham (29)
Deedar Bakhsh (30) Kashf-ul-Asrar (31) Mohabbat-ul-Asrar (32)
Tarfa-tul-Ain (this book is also known as Hujjat-ul-Asrar).
Sultan Bahoo has not used the conventional terms of sufism or
mysticism for his teachings, rather he calls them „Faqr‟. Faqr is
the spiritual way which leads to the Divine knowledge and vision
of Allah. In all his books he lays emphasis on acquiring Faqr
under the spiritual guidance of a Sarwari Qadri Murshid. He
declares the zikr4 and tasawur5 of Ism-e-Allah Zaat the key to the
ultimate sanctity and purgation of soul after which the soul is
blessed with the Divine vision and presence in the holy assembly
of Prophet Mohammad, which are the most elevated spiritual
stations.
Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo says in his books that despite of all
his efforts he could not find a truly capable seeker of Allah to
whom he could entrust the Divine Trust of Faqr for the future
guidance of seekers, so on the 1st of Jamadi-us-Sani in 1102 H
(1st March, 1691 A.D) he passed away without transferring this
Trust to anyone. Afterwards, Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo entrusted
it spiritually to Syed Mohammad Abdullah Shah Madni Jilani.
The shrine of Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo is in Jhang, Pakistan.
His urs is held on the first Thursday of Jamadi-us-Sani.6
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Invocation
5
Contemplation
6
To read the complete biography and teachings of Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo please read
the books “Shams-ul-Fuqara” and “Mujtaba Akhir Zamani” written by Hazrat Sakhi
Sultan Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman, or their English versions titled as “Sultan Bahoo-
The Life and Teachings” and “The Spiritual Guides of Sarwari Qadri Order” respectively.
His complete biography is also compiled by Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Mohammad Najib-ur-
Rehman by the title “Sultan Bahoo”.
AIN-UL-FAQR
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Meaning: All praises are for Almighty Allah, The Sustainer of

all worlds. The Immortal, The Eternal.
Meaning: He is the One who brings forth the living from the
dead and dead from the living. (Al-Rome-19)
Meaning: He can be likened with none, He alone is All-Hearing

All-Seeing. (Ash-Shura-11)
Blessings and salutations upon Prophet Mohammad, the leader
of all the leaders, the most eminent of all the creation of the eighteen
thousand worlds and the Prophet who brought righteousness and
the true faith. Allah declared his grandeur as:
Meaning: (O’ beloved!) If it was not for you I would not have
created the worlds.
Meaning: (O’ beloved!) Say unto them: If you love Allah, follow
me. Allah will make you His beloved. (Aal-e-Imran-31)
Blessings upon Prophet Mohammad, his sacred Progeny,
Companions and Family.
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I have titled this book “Ain-ul-Faqr7”. It guides all the

common and special seekers of Allah and the Fana Fillah8
Faqeers9 at all the levels whether initial, middle or final and
blesses them with the great beneficence of the right mystic path
by revealing upon them the observation of Divine secrets. It
showers upon them the theophanies of Noor10 of the Oneness of
the Divine Essence and raises their level from Ilm-ul-Yaqeem11
to Ain-ul-Yaqeen12 and then Haq-ul-Yaqeen13 by the benediction
of true love of Allah. Allah says in a Qudsi Hadith14:
Meaning: I was a hidden treasure, I desired to be recognized so I

created the creation for My recognition.
Only those recognize Allah who remain steadfast upon the
sacred way of Holy Prophet and never get depraved from the
right path by going against the way of Prophet or involving in
wrong innovations and deceptive ways. Allah says:
Meaning: Those who deny Our revelations, We shall soon lead

them gradually towards catastrophe in such an imperceptible
manner that they will not even notice it. (Al-A’raf-182)
The Holy Prophet said:
7
Faqr is the Divine way which leads to the closeness and vision of Allah. “Ain-ul-Faqr”
means “The soul of Faqr”.
8
Annihilated in Allah
9
The mystic. True Faqeer is the perfect Saint who travels the path of Faqr and reaches its
ultimate level i.e. union with Allah.
10
The Divine light
11
Faith gained through knowledge
12
Faith gained by observation
13
Faith gained by experience, this is the final level of faith
14
Words of Allah told by the Holy Prophet
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Meaning: Every way that is rejected by shariah15 is heretical.

All the ways repudiated by shariah are surely infidelity. They
are the ways of Satan or nafs16 which create wrong desires of the
contemptible world, all of which are like a brigand (for the
travellers of the right path)17. Everyone must beware of them.
Meaning: One who seeks anything (other than Allah) finds no

good in it, while the one who seeks Allah finds everything.
I am going to write a few words about the mystic way of Faqr
which blesses the seeker with the spiritual flight (towards Allah).
The esoteric and exoteric objective of Faqr is i.e.
“run towards Allah”. While the objective of the reprobate
seekers of the world is i.e. “run away from Allah”.
Meaning: I have annihilated myself in the Oneness of Allah in

such a way that my existence has become one with The One.
Due to this ultimate Oneness I see nothing except Oneness.
Meaning: I reached above the Throne and the Chair through the
way of shariah and thoroughly observed all the spiritual levels
and waystations. Then the Holy Lord blessed me with the Divine
secret of His Oneness.
15
Set of Islamic laws
16
Inner baser self which keeps a person away from Allah by trapping him in worldly
desires.
17
The words in brackets are by the translator.
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Meaning: O’ seeker of Allah! You must observe Oneness of

Allah in each and everything and ever remain in the state of this
observation so that you gain perfect belief that there is nothing
but Allah everywhere.
Meaning: Whatever is contained in the vessel, only that comes

out of it.
Faqeer Bahoo informs the travellers of the mystic way that
Allah is neither in the six dimensions nor in the sun, moon or the
four basic elements i.e. earth, water, air and fire, neither you can
find Allah through intellectual discussions nor through ignorance,
neither is He bound by time, space or states nor can be viewed in
physical beauty of things. His closeness can neither be gained
through lengthy supplications or recital rounds nor through
exoteric pious deeds or ascetism, neither by begging from door
to door nor by wearing rags or keeping quite. Get to know and
understand it verily that Allah is in the heart of the possessor of
Divine secrets (i.e. the Insan-e-Kamil18). If you come (to him to
know this secret) the doors are open and if you do not then Allah
does not need anyone.
Meaning: O’ Allah! You are concealed in the heart of every

possessor of the Divine secret. This secret is revealed upon those
who seek it and always look forward to Your kindness.
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The Divine Universal Man
21
Meaning: Whoever comes to Your court with humility never

returns empty handed.
The Divine ocean of Oneness of Allah is present in the heart of
Momin19. Whosoever wants to gain the Truth and have union
with Allah, must first of all find a perfect and supreme Murshid20
who is actually the possessor of all the treasures of heart. By the
efficacy of tasawur21 and zikr22 of Ism-e-Allah Zaat23, the existence
of perfect Faqeers24 is all Noor. Whoever is blessed with the
treasures of heart does not remain deprived of the vision and
closeness of Allah. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: First find a companion then set on a journey.
Meaning: One who has no Shaikh25 has no faith.
Meaning: One who has no Shaikh, Satan surrounds him.

What is heart? It is vaster than the fourteen layers of earth and
skies. Allah says in a Qudsi Hadith:
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True believer. Here “Momin” refers to the Insan-e-Kamil who is the perfect spiritual
guide for the seekers of Allah.
20
Spiritual guide
21
Contemplation
22
Repeated invocation of name of Allah
23
Personal name of Allah which represents the Divine Essence and all the Divine
attributes
24
Perfect Faqeer is the Insan-e-Kamil or Murshid Kamil.
25
Synonym for Murshid, spiritual guide
22
Meaning: Neither the earth nor the skies can contain me but the
heart of a true Momin can.
Meaning: Verily, Allah neither observes your physical appearance

nor deeds rather He observes your hearts and intentions.
What are the signs of a perfect Murshid? He takes the seeker
of Allah above both the worlds in just blink of an eye and blesses
him with the level of Fana Fillah26. He neither narrates long tales
nor involves in verbal discussions. His single glance is better
than the eternal devotion. He straight away carries his disciples
to the world of absolute peace. Allah says:
Meaning: Whoever enters it, attains safety. (Aal-e-Imran-97)

O’ inferior one! Try to raise your level from an inferior man to
an elevated and strong man. What is the difference between the
two? At the inferior level, one is always fighting against the nafs
and Satan who are the enemies of Allah. While, the level of a
strong man is that he beheads the nafs and kills all its desires in
just one stroke and ends the fight, hence finds eternal peace and
attains the level of perseverance which is better than high levels
and miracles.
What are the other signs of a perfect Murshid? He blesses the
seekers of Allah with Divine presence. It is a great sin to involve
the seekers in invocation without granting them the Divine
presence. A perfect and supreme Murshid is completely drowned
in Divine union while the zikr (which does not grant Divine
presence) means that the reciter is away and separate from Allah.
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Annihilation in Allah
23
One who possesses the Divine name (due to ultimate Divine

union) do not need to recite the name. The perfect and
accomplished Murshid having Divine union separates the seeker
from everything other than Allah, removes all his confusions and
distractions and never indulges him in the hypocritical devotions.
Allah says:
Meaning: The noblest amongst you near Allah is the one who is
the most pious. (Al-Hujrat-13)
This (Faqr) is the way of secret and inward struggle and is not
at all related with discussions and exhortations. Allah says:
Meaning: Do you command others for piety and forget yourselves,

while you (also) recite the Book (of Allah)? So do you not
understand! (Al-Baqarah-44)
O’ (spiritually) ignorant intellectuals! Single glance of a perfect
and supreme Murshid is better than the worships of thousand
years. The superficial knowledge and discussions just create
confusions and differences while the glance of Murshid having
spiritually effective sight grants complete gnosis of the Divine
union.
If a perfect and supreme Murshid wants to involve the seeker
of Allah in hard mystic struggle, he may indulge him in ascetic
practices for twelve or twenty four or even forty years. However,
if he wants to bless the seeker with the Divine union he can
confer it upon him in just a moment without involving him in
zikr, meditation or any kind of mystic struggle. Where there is
eternal absorption in the states of Fana Fillah Baqa Billah27 and
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Immortality with Allah after annihilation in Him.
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ultimate union with Allah, there is no need of hard struggle and

devotion of years!
Meaning: When the Divine name and Essence became One for
me, I found the concealed Divine secret.
On attaining this level, everything other than Allah is forbidden
upon the seeker. His existence is unified with the Divine name
and Essence.
Meaning: Let the Divine name conceal in your being just like the
“ ”28 has been concealed in . (“ ” is actually which
means “with the name of” but while writing “ ” (with the
name of Allah) “ ” become silent or it gets concealed).
The seeker of Allah wraps the cover of Ism29-e-Allah

around him and makes It his life and soul, hence he finds eternal
life with “Hoo”30. His essence becomes the Divine Essence and
his attributes become the Divine attributes. The Holy Prophet
said:
28
First letter of Arabic alphabets
29
Ism means “name”
30
The Divine Essence. Zikr of „Hoo‟ is the most powerful zikr of Allah which takes close to
Him most quickly. When the Lover is annihilated in Hoo, there remains no duality.
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Meaning: Whoever recognizes himself, recognizes his Lord. One

who recognized himself by annihilating himself, recognized his
Lord by gaining immortality with Him.
The Eternal Essence should prevail in every breath i.e. every
breath should be possessed by the Eternal Essence.
Meaning: After thirty years Khaqani realized that a moment in

the company of Allah is better than possessing the Solomon
empire.
Meaning: Khaqani is not telling the truth here. The fact is that a
seeker of Allah should be so much drowned in the state of Fana
Fillah that he forgets even his breaths and does not feel even if
hundreds of years pass by.
There are some Faqeers who are absorbed in the zikr of ,

they possess effective spiritual attention, beneficent glance and
enlightened insight. They rule over their nafs31 and are absolved
of the lust of pleasures of the world, desires of nafs and satanic
temptations. They are ever inclined towards the Bestower and
are blessed with closeness of Allah. They are the beloveds of
Allah and are honoured in both the words. There are some (so
called) Faqeers who pretend to be absorbed in zikr of just to
become known among people. They are in fact ruled by their
nafs and trap people to gather money. You can recognize both
kinds of Faqeers through their conversation and concern about
the world. The true Faqeer talks about the world with disdain
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The baser self of a person which traps him in wrong desires and prevents him from
travelling towards Allah.
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which further purifies his heart from the love of the world while
the fake Faqeer is the seeker of the world so he talks about the
world with praise which increases the love of world in his heart.
Listen! The ignorants are covered with ignorance which is an
attribute of Satan while the scholars and knowledgeable persons
are covered with knowledge and wisdom gained from the Book
of Allah, their knowledge guards them against the satanic
ignorance. The Faqeers are covered with the Noor of marifat32 of
secrets of Allah which takes them on the spiritual flight to both
the worlds. Ignorance brings torment for the ignorants while
knowledge is a source of forgiveness for the scholars. Another
difference between the ignorants, scholars and Faqeers is that
ignorants are commoners, scholars are special ones while the
Faqeers are the distinguished ones. An ignorant breeds
ignorance, infidelity, polytheism and wrong innovations in the
religion. The scholars talk about the words of Allah and His
Prophet, verses of Quran, Hadiths and Islamic laws. While, every
word of a Faqeer is about Ism-e-Allah, marifat of (no one
but Allah) and the Divine Beauty. The Holy Prophet said:

out of it.
Allah says:
Meaning: Do the zikr of your Holy Lord when you forget

(everything). (Al-Kahf-24)
It is not at all difficult for the true Murshid who himself is
stationed at the level of Fana Fillah and blessed with the Divine
presence, to immerse his disciples in the Oneness of Allah and
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Gnosis, the knowledge of Allah gained after His closeness and vision.
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confer upon them higher spiritual levels by granting them the

presence of the holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad sall‟Allahu
alayhi wa‟alihi wasallam. It is certainly easier for him to bless
them with Divine presence than to indulge them in ascetic
discipline or invocation and meditation. He just holds the hand of
his true disciple, takes him to Allah (spiritually) and entrusts the
disciple to Him. Truth can be verified! The Murshid who is not
empowered to do so cannot be called a Murshid, such a person is
actually a brigand like Satan. Allah says:
Meaning: Allah‟s Hand is upon their hands (who take bayat upon
the hand of the Holy Prophet or his spiritual successors). (Al-
Fateh-10)
Meaning: Hold the hand of a true man (i.e. perfect Murshid) so

that you also become a true slave of Allah. Except the true men,
no one knows the exact path to Allah and the proper way of
guiding others on this path.
However, the condition is that the seeker of Allah must observe
Allah with his (spiritual) eyes through the zikr of name of Allah,
as one of the attributive names of Allah is Hadi (The Righteous
Guide) and Allah send the Holy Prophet as the righteous guide
(i.e. the Holy Prophet manifests the Divine attribute of “Hadi”
alongwith all the other Divine attributes. A perfect Murshid is
also blessed with this attribute and is the righteous guide for his
disciples). Verily, Satan can never take the form of the righteous
guides. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Satan cannot take my form. No doubt! Whoever saw

me, saw the Reality.
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Allah says:
Meaning: Surely, you (Satan) shall have no power over my true

servants (i.e. you will not be able to influence and misguide
them). (Al-Hijar-42)
A true Murshid is the perfect follower of the Holy Prophet
while an imperfect Murshid is like Satan. When a true Murshid
having spiritually empowered sight blesses the seeker with his
attention, he awakens the soul of the seeker and starts the zikr of
Allah in him which continues voluntarily due to which his nafs is
disgraced and tormented. He is attached with the Creator and
detached from the creation. People call him insane (as they
cannot understand his inward condition). He fervently calls out:
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Whoever watches us, avoids us because we

follow the path of Faqr which is avoided by the people as it is
indifferent to everyone.
Meaning: Nothing can stop them from the zikr of Allah even for
a moment.
Meaning: Bahoo has forgotten both the worlds (in the love of
Allah) and has become independent of them.
Allah says:
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Meaning: And his eye neither inclined aside nor overstepped the
limit. (Al-Najam-17)
There are two kinds of mystic travellers, one are the majzoob33
and others are mehboob34. The real Faqeer is neither of the two.
He is the master of both the worlds, beloved of Allah and a man
of powers and waham35. When a seeker reaches this level he
becomes disgusted of everything other than Allah, he loves only
Allah turning away from everyone. He is obsessed with the intense
passion of Divine love and is aggrieved day and night due to the
pain of this love. His nafs is dead. Hazrat Abraham bin Adham
said, “The Divine Beloved is not pleased with you unless you
sacrifice all your worldly relations and get detached from your
loved ones considering your sons as orphans and wives as widows,
disgrace your ownself, give all your possessions in the way of
Allah complying to the verse
meaning: “You can never attain to righteousness unless you give
in the way of Allah that is the dearest to you”36 and make Allah
your sole friend inwardly and outwardly. Then He will love you
as He said, meaning: “Allah loves them and they
love Allah” and 37
meaning: “Allah is
pleased with them and they are pleased with Allah”38.
Faqeer Bahoo says that Faqr is the way of perseverance not of
miracles or sensual desires. As, perseverance is an attribute of
the special ones while miracles are considered as filth and
impurity in this way. Listen friend! A true seeker of Allah must
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Lost in Divine meditation. The mystic who cannot tolerate the effects of Divine
disclosure and loses his senses.
34
The favourites of Allah
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Waham is an inward state of spiritual conversation and esoteric connection with Allah.
36
Surah Aal-e-Imran-92
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Surah Al-Maidah-54
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Surah Al-Bayyana-8
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keep away from filth and impurities. You must purify your heart
first, then it will accept and surrender to the Truth.
Meaning: Those who submit their lives before the will of Allah
are blessed with a new life every moment from the Invisible.
Meaning: Angels do not enter the house where a dog is kept.

Heart is like a house and the zikr of Allah is like an angel
while nafs is like a dog. Allah does not bless the heart with His
attention which is filled with the sensual desires of nafs,
darkness of satanic distractions and the filth of worldly love. The
heart which is deprived of the kind attention of Allah becomes
dark, depraved and full of envy, greed and arrogance. Due to
envy, Qabeel (Cain) killed Habeel (Abel). Due to greed Adam
ate the grain of wheat (which was forbidden by Allah) and was
exiled from the heaven. While, arrogance of Satan took him to
the cursed levels. Hence, the heart which is obsessed by sensual
desires is an adobe of greed, envy and arrogance. It is always
worried for the contemptible worldly gains. The Holy Prophet
said:
Meaning: The love of world and religion cannot sustain in one

heart just like fire and water cannot be contained in one utensil.
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Meaning: Your tongue is reciting the name of Allah while your

heart is attentive towards worldly possessions. How can such a
recitation benefit you!
When a true Faqeer closes his eyes, he views eighteen thousand
spheres of both the worlds (spiritually). Allah says:
Meaning: And his eye neither inclined aside nor overstepped the
limit. (Al-Najam-17)
Meaning: I seek refuge of Allah from Faqr39 which brings

disgrace.
The Holy Prophet has sought refuge of Allah from the Faqr
which makes a person embarrassed before people for the sake of
worldly gain, or it is the Faqr in which a person possesses a lot
of worldly riches but becomes heedless like Pharoah, miser like
Qaroon40, arrogant like Namroood and slave of worldly riches
like Shaddad41 due to that wealth. Allah says:
Meaning: They will be humble towards the believers (but) strict

(and firm) towards the disbelievers. They will toil (very hard) in
the way of Allah and will never fear any reproaches of the
reprovers. (Al-Maidah-54)
Listen! You have been honoured by Allah, as He says:
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It is the hypocritical Faqr which is not meant for Allah.
40
“Korah” in the Bible
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A king who created an imitation of paradise.
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Meaning: And We have indeed honoured the children of Adam.

(Bani-Israil-70)
Allah has created you for His worship and servitude as He

says:
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Meaning: And I created the jinns and human beings solely to

adopt My servitude. (Al-Zariyat-56) i.e. for His gnosis and recognition
which are the basis of all the worships and the true servitude.
The true Arif43 and worshipper of Allah is the one who reaches
this level of worship (i.e. he worships Allah after His complete
recognition). Allah says:
Meaning: And worship your Lord till you attain to the station of
certainly of faith. (Al-Hijar-99)
Sheikh Mohiyuddin Abdul Qadir Jilani said:
Meaning: One who intended to worship after attaining to the final

level of union with Allah, committed infidelity and polytheism.
One who has surpassed all the levels of servitude and has
attained to Lordship after annihilating himself and becoming
Fana Fillah, does not need to indulge in physical devotions as he
is now a man of Divine observation which is his actual worship.
42
Hazrat Abdullah Ibn-e-Abbas added these words while explaining the verse 56 of surah
Al-Zariyat.
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The knower of Allah who prays Allah while seeing Him, Gnostic.
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Meaning: I behold the unparalleled Allah after being beheaded

(i.e. after annihilating myself). When I am no more, how will I
unite with Him.
Meaning: Unless one annihilates oneself, one remains trapped in

the desires of nafs and can never reach the level about which the
Holy Prophet said “There are times of my such closeness to
Allah when neither any Prophet nor angel can come between
us.”
Hazrat Ali said:
Meaning: When I see things, I just observe Allah in them because

He is the core and reality (of everything).
Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: I am as My slave perceives Me, now it is upto him

how he perceives Me.
So, Allah asks His beloved Prophet to tell His slaves to
perceive Him the best when they wish His closeness. When they
will observe their real (inward) existence, they will find the
Reality. Allah says:
Meaning: And (I am) within you, can‟t you see. (Al-Zariyat-21)

However, the traveller of this path (which leads to Allah) should
be a real man whose eyes of soul are open with which he can
observe the Reality. Qudsi Hadith:
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Meaning: Donkeys are created in the form of men.

The person who has studied thousands of books but is deprived
of the marifat of Allah and is unaware of the mystic path is like a
beast of burden, his tongue is alive but heart is dead. Allah says:
Meaning: And We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. (Qaf-16)
Meaning: Whoever gave his life to Allah, procured Ism-e-Allah.

Whoever procured Ism-e-Allah beheld Allah with his open eyes.
Meaning: Meditate upon His signs not upon His Essence.
Meaning: Why do you think that Allah is away from you. He is

nearer than your jugular vein and is with you wherever you are,
in fact you are away from Him.
Allah says:
Meaning: He (Allah) is with you wherever you are. (Al-Hadeed-4)

Allah is always with you but you are blind to His presence and
depraved from His path. Allah says:
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Meaning: And whoever is blind (to the vision of Allah) in this

(world) will remain blind in the hereafter as well. (Bani-Israil-72)
Most of the people get knowledge just for worldly gain or to
earn their income and elevate their material levels. Allah says:
Meaning: Have We not broadened your chest for you (to gain
the marifat and knowledge of Allah). And We have taken off the
burden from you. (A-Lam Nashrah-1,2)
The real knowledge of Allah is present in the pure heart, not in
the heart which is malicious and vain. Listen O' knower of the
Truth! Be with Allah always and erase everything other than
Allah from the tablet of your heart such that there remains
nothing but Allah in you. May you attain the level about which
Allah says:
Meaning: Everything will perish. And the beautiful countenance

of your Lord, Who is the Master of glory and splendour and the
Master of bounty and honour, will remain. (Al-Rehman-26,27)
Meaning: The All-Seeing Lord is always with me, He ever watches

me and knows me well. How can the people who are inwardly
like animals be aware of such unification with the Lord.
When Ism-e-Allah is engraved on the heart, the theophanies

of Ism envelop and grip the heart and the nafs is subdued, as
said:
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Meaning: It (Ism-e-Allah Zaat) kills the nafs and enlivens the

heart.
Then the seeker becomes disgusted of everything, as Ghaus-ul-
Azam Shaikh Mohiyuddin Abdul Qadir Jilani says:
Meaning: One who loves Allah is disgusted of everything other

than Allah.
Meaning: When Ism of Allah enlightens the forehead, Its Noor

takes the seeker to the level of Haq-ul-Yaqeen.
Meaning: The world and hereafter are for you, for me there is
only Allah.
He also said, “You take the world and the hereafter, Allah is
sufficient for me”.
Further he said:
Meaning: One who seeks the world gets only the world, one who
seeks the hereafter gets only the hereafter, while the one who
seeks Allah gets everything.
Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: Leave your nafs and be elevated (to Allah).

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Meaning: I have removed all the worries of the world and

hereafter from my heart because it can either be occupied by
unnecessary things or by the love and thoughts of Beloved.
Meaning: Ishq44 is a fire that burns everything other than the

Beloved (Allah).
Only the Divine Existence prevails in the inward and outward
of everything. When the Arif Billah45 talks, he talks only about
Ism-e-Allah and wherever he sees, he sees only Allah, as Allah
says:
Meaning: Wherever you turn, you will observe the Divine Face,
surely Allah is Infinite and All-Knowing. (Al-Baqarah-115)
And whatever he hears, hears from Allah

meaning: “Certainly Allah encompasses everything.” When a
true lover of Allah attains to this level, he is honoured with Faqr.
Meaning: Faqr is my pride and Faqr is from me. I am

distinguished among all the Prophets and Messengers due to
Faqr.
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Intense Divine love
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The knower of Allah who is One with Him
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Meaning: Love of the Faqeers is among the virtues of the

Prophets and spite against them is the attribute of Pharoah.
Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: One who beheld any Faqeer (with devotion and love)
and heard his words attentively (and followed them), Allah will
raise him with Prophets and Apostles on the doomsday.
Allah says in a Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: I am his companion who does My zikr.

Learning one law of jurisprudence is better than the reward of
one year‟s worship, while remaining in the company of Allah for
a moment through zikr of with breaths is better than the
reward of learning thousand laws of jurisprudence. This is because
learning jurisprudence is just the base of Islam and if the
recitation of Quran or other outward prayers are delayed, they
can be offered later but if a breath passes without the zikr of
Allah, it can never be availed later. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: One who does not fulfill his eternal obligation (of
remembering Allah with each breath), Allah does not accept his
obligatory prayers which he offers on fixed times.
Meaning: Every person has counted breaths, each breath which

passes without the zikr of Allah is dead.
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Meaning: Guard each and every breath because every breath is a

whole world in itself, rather for a wise person a breath is
precious than the universe (because a breath passed in zikr of
Allah grants eternal life and blesses with closeness of Allah).
Meaning: You must not waste your remaining life in grief and
worry over the past. The available time is precious, you must
avail it, as time and tide wait for none.
The breaths passed in the zikr of Allah will be your sole
companion at the time of death by the favour of Allah. Seeking
anything other than Allah is sheer depravity. The Holy Prophet
said:
Meaning: The best desire is the desire of (closeness to) Allah and
the best zikr is the zikr of Allah.
Allah says:
Meaning: And do not follow him whose heart We have made

neglectful of Our remembrance and who follows the desires (of
his nafs) and he is the one who exceeds all bounds. (Al-Kahf-28)
Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: Whoever seeks Me, undoubtedly finds Me. Whoever

finds Me, he recognizes Me. Whoever recognizes Me, he begins
to love Me. Whoever loves Me, he becomes My lover. Whoever
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loves Me passionately, I kill him. Whomsoever I kill, his

compensation is due on Me and I am Myself his compensation.
Meaning: One who seeks and struggles for anything, finds it.
Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: Verily, in the body of human being there is lump of

flesh which has a subtle point in it called fawad. Fawad is in the
qalb, qalb is in the soul, soul is in the sir‟r, sir‟r is in the khafi
and khafi is in the Ana46.
When a Fana Fillah Faqeer spiritually reaches the innermost
point i.e. the Ana (The Divine Essence concealed in his core) the
state of sukr47 overcomes him. The Noor of Divine Oneness
radiates from his three organs i.e. from his forehead, eyes and
heart. If all the three organs remain worshipping Allah and he
keeps acquiring the marifat and closeness of Allah more and
more, this Noor enhances otherwise it is confiscated. The
worship of these three organs is that his forehead should be
always prostrating before Allah, his eyes should remain on shariah
and his heart should verily follow the Holy Prophet. When a
Faqeer is dominated by Ana then this domination can also be of
two kinds; one is in which the Faqeer says meaning:
“Rise by the command of Allah” and the other is in which the
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46
The inner self of a human being has subtle layers which are; the qalb (the heart or
inward), the soul, the sir‟r (the Divine secret), khafi (the hidden, the Divine Soul), Ana
(The Divine Essence). Ana is the inner most core which contains everything.
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Sukr is the state of spiritual intoxication. It is the state of absence of self-awareness
brought about through a powerful spiritual influence such as immersion in the zikr of
Allah, attention of the perfect Murshid, deep emotions of love for the Divine Beloved etc.
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Prophet Isa (Christ) gave life to the dead by saying these words.
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Faqeer says meaning: “Rise by my command”. On

reaching this level Bayazid Bastami said
meaning: “I am the All-Praised and I owe great splendour”, while
Mansoor Al-Hallaj declared meaning: “I am the Divine
Reality”. Ana is a secret, on whomsoever it is disclosed, he
himself becomes that secret. However, when the Holy Prophet
reached this level, he said:
Meaning: O’ Allah be glorified! I could not get Your marifat as I

should have and I could not worship You as You deserve to be
worshipped.
This Hadith proves that this is an imperfect level, one must
progress and reach the level of i.e. “where there is no
fear”. Allah says about this level:
Meaning: Certainly! The Saints of Allah will not have any fear,
nor will they grieve. (Yunus-62)
Know and be aware that this is the level of Faqr of Prophet
Mohammad. Allah said about the ummah49 of Prophet Mohammad:
Meaning: You are the best nation brought forth for (the guidance
of) mankind. (Aal-e-Imran-110)
(Rise by Allah’s command) is the level of Jesus Christ
while (Rise by my command) is the level of the ummah of

Prophet Mohammad, because Jesus Christ only had the knowledge
of Oneness of Allah but the true and perfect followers of Prophet
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Nation
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Mohammad (i.e. the perfect Faqeers) are drowned in the

Oneness of Allah from head to toe and from heart to soul.
Neither they are Allah nor other than Allah, like a flame in the
fire or salt in the food. One soon gets absorbed in the milieu. A
Faqeer is unified with Allah just like water and milk become one
on mixing. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: There are times of my such closeness to Allah when

neither any Prophet nor angel can come between us.
Allah says:
Meaning: (O’ esteemed beloved)! Surely We decided for you a

glorious victory. So that Allah may forgive for your sake, all the
earlier and later sins (of your ummah). (Al-Fateh-1,2)
When the Holy Prophet attained this level he was highly
grateful to Allah and worshipped Him even more, how can
anyone be better than him! He said:
Meaning: Should I not be a grateful slave!

He also said:
Meaning: If the inward state is opposite to the outward state, it is

surely falsehood.
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Meaning: First you must gain knowledge then travel the path to
Allah. The ignorants have no place near Allah Almighty.
Meaning: One who adopts asceticism without acquiring knowledge,

at last becomes lunatic and die as an infidel.
Meaning: The knowledge of Allah is the light, no light is brighter

than it. However, one ought to act upon one‟s knowledge.
Knowledge without action is just like a burden put on a donkey.
Allah says:
Meaning: Then he who would have done even an atom‟s weight

of good will see it. And he who would have done even an atom‟s
weight of evil will (also) see it. (Al-Zilzal-7,8)
Meaning: The inward knowledge is like butter while the outward

knowledge is like milk. Just like butter cannot be produced
without milk, similarly no one can become a spiritual guide
without following a spiritual guide.
Real knowledge is that which takes you to the One about
whom you gain the knowledge and makes you aware of Him,
otherwise it is the knowledge about which the Holy Prophet said
meaning: “Knowledge is the greatest veil”.
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Meaning: The knowledge which guides one on the path of

Beloved Allah is not written in the books. Whatever we have
studied in the books of outward knowledge is not beneficial in
the way to Allah.
Meaning: If your heart (soul) finds the closeness and company of

the Divine Beloved, you will be blessed with the life that has no
end.
Allah says about those who do not acquire marifat and
closeness of Allah through their knowledge:
Meaning: (They are) like donkeys laden with heavy books on its
back. (Al-Juma-5)
Meaning: Do not ask the secrets of marifat from the people of

religious schools. A worm cannot become scholar even if it eats
the whole book.
Hadith:
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Meaning: The Holy Prophet said to Hazrat Abu Zar Ghaffari,

“O’ Abu Zar! Walk alone, Allah Almighty is alone in the
Heavans so you also become alone on the earth. O’ Abu Zar!
Allah is beautiful and appreciates beauty.” The Holy Prophet
said, “O’ Abu Zar! Do you know about what I worry and aggrieve
and what do I desire?” Hazrat Abu Zar replied, “O’ Holy Prophet
please tell me about it.” The Holy Prophet heaved a sigh and
said, “I am aggrieved and anxious to meet my brothers who will
come after me. Their dignity will be like that of Prophets and
there rank near Allah will be that of martyrs. They will separate
from their parents, brothers, sisters and children for the sake of
Allah and will sacrifice all their wealth and possessions in His
way. They will convert their pride into humility and will never
be inclined towards worldly pleasures and lusts. They will gather
in one of the houses of Allah50 and will suffer pain and grief just
for the sake of Divine love. Their hearts will be attentive towards
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Here “houses of Allah” refer to the “Khanqahs” i.e. the place where a Murshid Kamil
persuades and guides the seekers of Allah to travel on the path of Allah.
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Allah, their souls will be with Allah and their deeds will be for
Allah. If anyone of them will fall ill, his illness will be rewarded
by Allah more than the reward of worships of thousand years.
May I tell you more about them?” Hazrat Abu Zar replied,
“Sure”. The Holy Prophet proceeded, “When anyone of them
will die, it would be like someone from the heavens has died, his
death will be honoured by Allah. If you say, shall I tell you some
more about them?” Hazrat Abu Zar said, “Do tell me O’ Prophet
of Allah.” The Holy Prophet said, “Even if a louse will enter
their clothes and harm them, Allah will reward this minor pain
equal to the reward of seventy hajj51 and seventy umras52 and
will also grant them the reward equal to the reward of setting
free forty slaves from the tribe of Prophet Ismail, such that each
slave had price of twelve thousand dinars. Should I add
something more to explain their honour?” Hazrat Abu Zar
replied, “Please do”. The Holy Prophet added, “When any of
them will mention the lovers of Allah, he will be conferred
thousand times reward with his each breath, shall I tell you
more?” Hazrat Abu Zar replied, “Yes, my lord”. The Holy
Prophet said, “If any of them will offer two rakats53 of prayer at
the mountain of Arafat54, its reward will be equal to the reward
of thousand years prayers of the whole life of Prophet Noah.
May I add more.” Hazrat Abu Zar said, “Sure O’ lord”. The Holy
Prophet proceeded, “If anyone of them will glorify Allah, his
glorification will benefit him much more than the mountains of
gold and silver walking alongwith him on the doomsday. Let me
say some more about them.” Hazrat Abu Zar submitted “Why not
my beloved Prophet”. The Holy Prophet said, “If someone will
look towards any of them with love, Allah would appreciate it
more than his looking towards Khana Kaaba with reverence.
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Pilgrimage
52
The pilgrimage performed in Makkah in days other than the Hajj days which are 9 th and
10th of Zilhajj
53
A unit of Salat. Salat is the obligatory prayer
54
A plain fifteen miles to the east of Makkah
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Whoever will see them, will actually behold Allah (in them). If
someone will offer them clothes to wear, it will be as if he has
presented them to Allah. If someone will offer them food to eat,
it will be as if he has presented it to Allah. If you like I can
further explain their splendour.” Hazrat Abu Zar said, “Please do
my lord.” The Holy Prophet said, “If a chronic sinner will join
their assembly, he will be forgiven before he leaves the
assembly. You must know that the people of pure heart
sometimes observe the secrets of the spiritual worlds in their true
dreams and sometimes with open eyes while awakening and
everything is exposed upon them. This is one of the highest
spiritual levels and is among the ranks of the Prophets.
Certainly! The true dreams are the forty sixth part of
Prophethood. So, you must fear Allah in their matter. If you will
commit anything wrong with them, you will transgress your limit
and it will put you into destruction. Ignorance is better than the
intellect which inclines one to deny their grand status. One who
denies the honour of the Friends of Allah, also denies the honour
of the Prophets (because Prophets are first the Friends of Allah
then Prophets) and he is completely excluded from the religion.”
The following verses of Holy Quran are also about the
Faqeers:
Meaning: Stay tenaciously in the company of those who invoke

their Lord morning and evening, ardently seeking (vision of) His
countenance. And do not turn your eyes away from them. Do
you seek the charms of the worldly life (turning your attention
away from these self-denying devotees). And (also) do not follow
him whose heart We have made neglectful of Our remembrance
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and who follows the desires of his nafs, he is the one who
exceeds all bounds. (Al-Kahf-28)
Meaning: O’ satisfied self! Return to your Lord in such a state

that you are pleased with Him and He is pleased with you. So
join My (perfect) slaves. And enter the heaven (of My nearness).
(Al-Fajr, 27-30)
Meaning: Allah has not made for any man two hearts inside his
breast chamber. (Al-Ahzab-4)
In Risala-Al-Ghausia Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir
Jilani writes:
Meaning: Allah said to me, “O’ Ghaus-ul-Azam! Faqeer is not

the one who has nothing. Instead, Faqeer is the one who has
command over everything. When he says Kun55 (Be) to

anything, it is Fayakun (done immediately). O’ Ghaus-ul-
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“Kun” is the Divine Order. When Allah says “Kun” (be) to anything, it is Fayakun
(done immediately).
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Azam! Say unto your friends and companions that if they want
the blessing of My love, they should adopt the path of Faqr.
When Faqr is accomplished, that is Allah. O’ Ghaus-ul-Azam!
Tell your friends and companions to pay heed to the call of the
Faqeers because verily they are with Me and I am with them. O’
Ghaus-ul-Azam! When you find a Faqeer in such a wretched
condition that the fire of Faqr has consumed him, be close to
him, as there is no veil between him and Me.”
Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Common people consider Faqr troublesome but Allah

has declared it a treasure.
Meaning: An unfortunate Faqeer is better than a grateful generous.
Meaning: Faqr enlightens the countenance in both the worlds.

Someone asked Hazrat Bayazid Bastami “What is dervishism
and faqeerism?” He replied, “Dervishism and faqeerism is that if
a Faqeer gets treasures of the eighteen thousand worlds he
spends everything in the way of Allah”. There are seventy
thousand stations in dervishism and faqeerism, unless a Dervish
Faqeer passes from all those stations, views each of them and
also shows them to his (true) disciples he cannot be considered a
Dervish Faqeer. Unless he becomes aware of all the spiritual
levels and crosses all of them he does not become a true Dervish
Faqeer. He has adopted dervishism for his ownself, not for the
sake of Allah. Wherever there is a treasure, there is a snake on it
and where there is a flower, there are thorns with it. When a
Faqeer has crossed the eighteen thousand worlds and reached
above the Throne, no one can even imagine the height of his
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spiritual rank, only such a mystic can be called a Dervish Faqeer

in mysticism. His spiritual status is a secret between the Lord
and the slave. No one knows this secret except Allah Almighty
Who is the All-Wise.
Meaning: A true lover of Allah is drowned in the ocean of

Divine love in such a manner that his levels are raised above the
Throne every moment.
Faqeer Bahoo says that on the night of Meraj56 the Holy
Prophet rode Buraq57 and angel Jibrail escorted him. During this
ascension journey Jibrail presented eighteen thousand worlds,
decorated and adorned beautifully, before the Holy Prophet.
When the Holy Prophet reached the Divine court at the point of
meaning: “Then the distance measuring only
two bow-lengths was left (between Allah unveiled and His
esteemed beloved) or even less than that”58 crossing the Throne,
the Chair and the stations of Sidra-tul-Muntaha59
and Mahmoodan Naseera60, Allah asked him, “O’ My
beloved Mohammad, I have presented the eighteen thousand
worlds before you and entrusted all the creations to you, what do
you like the best among them and what do you wish to have? He
replied humbly, “O’ my Lord! I like Your love and Ism-e-Allah
Zaat61 the most and I seek You from You”. Allah asked, “O’
Mohammad, in which thing My love is found, what do I want
and what do I like the most that is closest to Me such that there is
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Ascension of the Holy Prophet to Allah
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The heavenly pagasus
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Surah Al-Najam-9
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Farthest lote tree of heaven
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Point of ultimate belovedness
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The Divine name which represents the Divine Essence and all Divine attributes.
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no veil between Me and that thing?” The Holy Prophet replied,

“O’ Almighty Allah! That thing is Faqr Fana Fillah Baqa
Billah62”.
The Holy Prophet prayed to Allah:
Meaning: O’ Allah! Let me live as a miskeen63, die as a miskeen

and raise me among the miskeens on the doomsday.
When the Holy Prophet observed that Faqr is One with Allah he
uttered:
Meaning: The chief of a community is the servant of Faqeers.

He also said:
Meaning: When Faqr is accomplished, that is Allah.

Allah says:
Meaning: And Allah is the Independent and you all are the Faqeers.
(Mohammad-38)
Meaning: Indeed Allah loves the independent Faqeers.

Hence, Faqr of the Holy Prophet is the chosen and desired
Faqr not the constrained or imposed one. Then Almighty Allah
asked, “O’ beloved Mohammad! What do you dislike?” He
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Faqr which is annihilated in Allah and immortal with Allah
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Literary “miskeen” means indigent or meek person but mystically it refers to the
Faqeer who stays with Allah permanently, as “miskeen” is derived from the Arabic word
“sakin” which literally means “stationary” or “staying at one place”.
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replied, “O’ Allah! Whatever is disliked by you, is disliked by

me as well.” Allah asked, “Do you know what is disliked by
Me?” The Holy Prophet replied, “O’ Holy Lord! You dislike the
world whose value in your sight is even lesser than a mosquito‟s
wing”. So, whoever likes the world, is disliked in the court of
Allah. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The world and whatever is in it is cursed except the

zikr of Allah.
Listen! Faqeer Bahoo says that the word Faqr has three
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letters (according to Arabic script), the word Fiqah also has
three letters, similarly the words Ilm65 , Amal66 and Hilm67
have three letters each and Haleem68 is Allah‟s attributive

name. The seeker of Allah must acquire all these following the
shariah perfectly and should also have the real knowledge of
mysticism, marifat, reality and the love of Allah before stepping
into Faqr. Once he has acquired Faqr, he must forget both the
worlds. Only Allah, everything other than Allah is lust! Without
following these steps no one can travel the path of Faqr properly.
Thousands of travellers of this path were lost in the mystery of
Divine Oneness (because their attention diverted from Allah
towards other than Allah). They got absorbed (in the charms of
world and hereafter) so they were regressed and remorseful, at
last their souls died. A seeker must follow the shariah of Prophet
Mohammad vigilantly and should be immersed in the love of
Allah, whether he is sleeping or awakening, experiencing the
state of intoxication or sobriety.
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Jurisprudence
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Knowledge
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Action, deed
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Clemency
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The Clement
CHAPTER I
EXPLANATION OF ISM-E-ALLAH ZAAT
AND THE LEVELS OF FANA FILLAH AND
DIVINE ONENESS
Listen! All the four holy books i.e. Taurah, Gospel, Psalms and
Quran are just the explanation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. What is Ism-
e-Allah Zaat? Ism-e-Allah Zaat is exactly the Divine Essence
Who is incomparable, unparalleled, doubtless and unexemplified,
for Whom it is said (O’ beloved! Say unto them
Allah is One). Whoever recites and learns (the reality of) Ism-e-
Allah Zaat by heart, becomes the beloved of Allah. By the
recitation and zikr of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, the inspirational knowledge
is gained about which Allah says:
Meaning: And Adam was taught the Divine knowledge of all the
beautiful names of Allah. (Al-Baqarah-31)
Allah says:
Meaning: Do not take anything upon which Ism-e-Allah has not

been recited, it is verily a sin (to have it). (Al-Inam-121)
Keep in mind that the ascension of the Holy Prophet to the
station of Qab-a-Qausain69 higher than the Throne, the Chair, the
Pen, the Tablet and then talking to Allah without any veil in
between was only due to the benediction of Ism-e-Allah Zaat
because Ism-e-Allah Zaat is the key to both the worlds. The
seven layers of earth and skies are stable without any pillar only
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Point of ultimate nearness between Allah and His beloved Prophet referred to as “Qab-
a-Qausain” in the Holy Quran which means “two bows length”.
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because of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. All Prophets got Prophethood and

won over the disbelievers only due to the power of Ism-e-Allah
Zaat. Their slogan was always “Only Allah is enough for our
help”. The medium connecting Allah and His slave is Ism-e-
Allah Zaat. All the Saints and Friends of Allah whether Ghaus70
or Qutb71 got the beneficence of zikr, meditation, inspiration,
absorption in Divine Oneness, concentration, unveiling and
miracles by the grace of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Such inspirational
knowledge is revealed by Ism-e-Allah Zaat that one does not
need to gain any other knowledge.
Meaning: One who is attached with Ism-e-Allah Zaat, gets

detached from everything other than Allah.
Allah says:
Meaning: (O' Allah!) So put us apart from (these) wicked people

(by Your command). (Al-Maidah-25)
Meaning: Do not join the company of wrong innovators in the

religion.
Meaning: The people who make wrong innovations in the religion

are the dogs of hell-fire.
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Ranks of Saints
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Listen! By the zikr of the attributive names of Allah one can be

deceived and misled72, but the zikr of Ism-e-Allah Zaat will
never mislead the zakir73. The grand personal name of Allah
has four letters (according to Arabic alphabets) . When
„ ‟ (Alif) of (AllaHoo) is removed, it becomes (Lillah).
When first (Lam) of (Lillah) is removed, it becomes

(LaHoo) and when second (Lam) is removed, it becomes
(Hoo). All four of them are Ism-e-Allah Zaat and
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the Ism-e-Azam . Allah says in Quran:
Meaning: He is and no one is worthy of worship except

(Hoo).
Allah says:
Meaning: Allah (Ism-e-Allah Zaat) is the Friend of true believers,

He brings them out of darkness and takes them towards the Noor
(of Allah). (Al-Baqarah-257)
Meaning: No one is worthy of worship except (Hoo) so make

Him your (only) advocate. (Al-Muzammil-9)
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The zikr of attributive names cannot lead to Allah because attributive names are so
many and diverse, only the zikr of personal name of Allah which is the Ism-e-Allah
Zaat leads directly to Allah.
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One who does the zikr, the reciter.
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Ism-e-Azam is the Divine word by saying which with pure and perfect heart all the
problems are solved and treasures are gained. It is the most powerful word and according
to mystics it must be Ism-e-Allah Zaat because no word can be more powerful than
.
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Ism-e-Allah Zaat has been mentioned four thousand times in

the Holy Quran, by whose grace the whole Quran is Ism-e-Allah
Zaat. Perfect and accomplished Murshid is the one who only
knows the way of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Ism-e-Mohammad and
nothing else, while the true seeker is the one who seeks only Allah
the Exalted and nothing else.
Meaning: Skies and heavens are Allah‟s creation. He would fold

them (whenever He would want) but Ism-e-Allah Zaat is immortal,
it will remain forever.
When Allah desired (to be recognized), he separated Ism-e-
Allah Zaat from Himself (i.e. manifested Himself in the form of
Ism-e-Allah Zaat). From Ism-e-Allah Zaat the Noor of Mohammad
appeared. When the Divine Nature (Allah) beheld His reflection
in the mirror of His Oneness (i.e. Ism-e-Allah Zaat) in the form of
Noor of Mohammad, he was fascinated and became fond of
Himself and got the title of “Holy Lord of all the lords” and
“Beloved of Allah” from His Own Divine court. Then Allah
created all the souls of creatures of eighteen thousand realms
from the Noor of Mohammad. Allah says in a Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: (O’ beloved Mohammad!) Had it not for your sake, I

would not have manifested My Lordship.
First of all, Allah Himself recited the kalma75

for Prophet Mohammad, then the sacred soul of Hazrat Abu
Bakr Siddique recited . Then Hazrat Ali
recited the kalma in the womb of his mother and became a true
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Declaration of Islamic faith, meaning: No one is worthy of worship but Allah and
Mohammad is His Messenger.
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believer. Afterwards all the sacred Companions embraced the

miraculous faith. Listen! Every living thing whether jinn or
human, animal or bird breathe with the Ism Hoo, some of them
know some do not. Those who know become its true reciters,
those who do not become dead (spiritually):
Meaning: Hoo is the eternity, Hoo is the extremity. The seeker

who reaches Hoo becomes Arif76. By annihilating in Hoo, he
himself becomes Hoo.
Allah says:
Meaning: Hoo is the First (beginning) and the Last (final), the
Manifested (outward) and the Invisible (inward). (Al-Hadeed-3)
Meaning: The seeker‟s ownself is the biggest veil between him

and Allah which creates thousands of other veils. When his self
is removed, he witnesses that his Beloved (Allah) is closest to
him.
I am neither a pious man nor an ascetic, neither an abstainer
nor a true lover or the one who keeps vigil at night. I am just
drowned and annihilated in Allah.
Keep check on yourself as a judge and kill your infidel nafs as
a warrior. Be contended with Allah, remain with your Beloved as
a beloved and with strangers as a stranger. Do not accept any
lame excuse of your nafs and do not give justifications for its
evil. If someone adopts the way of austerity then he has to work
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The knower of Allah, Gnostic
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hard for twelve years in Shariat77 by worshipping the whole

night and fasting the whole day. Then, he must work hard for
another twelve years in Tareeqat78 (mystic way) by keeping away
from everything other than Allah. Afterwards, he has to struggle
for twelve more years in Haqeeqat79 (way of Reality) by seeking
nothing but Allah, then he must work hard for twelve years in
Marifat80 (way of Gnosis) by engrossing himself in the marifat of
Allah. Only then he reaches that level of Divine love where eyes
of his soul open just like the physical eyes. Without the perfect
Murshid none of the struggle of the seeker is fruitful even if he
spends his whole life in hard mystic practices. No one has ever
reached Allah without a Murshid because the Murshid knows
every waystation of the inward way. He has the solution of every
problem. Infact, Murshid is another name for the Divine favour,
without the Divine favour no job can be accomplished. Murshid
is like a vigilant and skilled captain of the ship who is aware of
all the hazards of the way and knows all the methods to
overcome them. Without the captain, the ship would surely sink.
For a seeker, perfect Murshid himself is the ship as well as the
captain. One who understands, will understand:
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Allah is nearer than your jugular vein. He is

always with you but you are away from Him.
As Allah says in Quran:
77, 78, 79, 80

Shariat, Tareeqat, Haqeeqat and Marifat are four levels of Divine closeness.
People at the level of Shariat follow the shariah of Prophet Mohammad perfectly and
sincerely to attain closeness of Allah. They are people of physical prayers and deeds.
When they reach the level of Tareeqat they toil to gain inward purity by taking bayat of
Murshid Kamil. On attaining the inward purity they reach the level of Haqeeqat where
they find the Reality through the Ishq of Allah. Ishq of Allah leads to the next level of
Marifat where they get the Divine knowledge after having vision and closeness of Allah.
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Meaning: And We are closer to him than his jugular vein. (Qaf-16)
Ishq (Divine love) is of two kinds; Ishq-e-Haqeeqi (the love of
Divine Reality) and Ishq-e-Majazi (the metaphorical love for the
manifestation of Divine Reality i.e. Murshid Kamil). Ishq-e-Haqeeqi
is that one remembers nothing but the Divine Reality. While,
Ishq-e-Majazi is that the seeker passes from the ecstatic spiritual
states of absorption, trance and intoxication by the zikr (of Ism-e-
Allah Zaat), hence recognizes his Divine Beloved and becomes
an enraptured and crazy lover. Only Allah! Everything other than
Allah is lust.
Meaning: While sleeping I am drowned in the Oneness of my

Divine Beloved and while awakening I am vigilantly with Him.
Those who are perfectly unified with Allah are blessed with His
vision while sleeping as well as awakening. How can ignorants
know about their states of spiritual ecstasy.
Allah be glorified! Allah is with me and I am with Him
“No one is worthy of worship but Hoo”.
Meaning: Bahoo, the son of Raasti, is upon the perfect and true
faith as his eyes are always beholding Allah.
Meaning: Raasti is adorned with veracity. May Allah bless her

with His Kindness and Forgiveness.
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Meaning: The seeker of the world is an eunuch, the seeker of

hereafter is a woman and the seeker of Allah is the man.
Who is a true man? The one who desires nothing but the vision
of Allah, neither he wants the pleasures and adornments of the
world nor the houries, castles and charms of the paradise. The
men of Divine vision have been absorbed in the ecstasy of Ism-
e-Allah Zaat since eternity, for them everything other than Allah
is hideous. Whosoever makes Ism-e-Allah Zaat his life and soul
gets rid of all worries of both the worlds. On the doomsday,
when the account of good and bad deeds of people would be
reckoned, the person on whose heart Ism-e-Allah would be
engraved and who would have invoked Ism-e-Allah sincerely
only once in life would be forgiven, even if his sins would be
equal to the fourteen layers of the earth and the skies. When the
angels will put all his sins on one side of the scale and his single
good deed of invocation of Ism-e-Allah on the other, the side
with Ism-e-Allah would be heavier. The angels would
surprisingly ask, “O’ Allah! Which good deed of this person
made the side of good deeds of the scale heavier?” Allah would
say, “This person is My seeker and used to remain occupied in
the zikr of Ism-e-Allah. O’ angels! You are among those who are
veiled from My real worship which is the zikr of Ism-e-Allah.
When My seekers do the zikr of Ism-e-Allah I am with them and
they are with Me. You are the strangers.” Only Allah!
Everything other than Allah is lust. Zikr of Ism-e-Allah is so
important that if someone has spent all his life in offering salat81,
keeping fasts, paying zakat82, performing hajj, recitation of Quran
and all other kinds of worships and has become a religious
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Prayer which is obligatory upon the Muslims to say five times a day in particular
manner.
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The obligatory charity
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scholar or a distinguished person but has not done the zikr of

Ism-e-Allah and Ism-e-Mohammad and has remained unaware
of their reality, verily his whole life and all worships are wasted.
They have provided him no benefit. The Holy Prophet said about
such people:
Meaning: They will die as they were born (i.e. they gained no
benefit from life) and they will be raised (in the same state) as
they had died.
Allah says:
Meaning: Fulfill the promise (made) to Me, I shall fulfill the

promise (made) to you. (Al-Baqarah-40)
In the world, there are many scholars, intellectuals, experts of
jurisprudence and ascetics who spend their nights in worshipping
and days in fasting. The people who stay in forty days seclusion,
perform hajj or fight combats are also many. We can also find
many Ghaus, Qutb, Saints, Shaikhs and jurist. There are many
men of pious deeds, recital rounds, mystic exercises and spiritual
observations. The poor, humble, patient and thankful are also
many. The true believers with good morals, high spiritual levels
who have found presence before the Lord are also many. Men of
passion for Allah, people who remain silent, awake in night and
the people who are vigilant in the way of Allah are also many.
However, all of them are egoistic and self worshippers (i.e.
whatever good they do, they do it for their own benefit or to raise
their spiritual levels, not sincerely and truly for Allah). Only a
few are the true worshippers of Allah who are absorbed in
Divinity. An Arif Billah Faqeer is the one who is a Faqeer Fana
Fillah (annihilated in Allah), Fana Fi Rasool (annihilated in
Prophet), Fana Fi Faqr (annihilated in Faqr) and Fana Fi Hoo
(annihilated in Hoo).
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Meaning: O’ Bahoo! One who has made Ism-e-Allah his companion,

got immersed in Ism-e-Allah and reached the level of Fana
Fillah. He is eternally relieved from all the grieves and worries,
and remains in the state of vigilance and ecstasy simultaneously.
Listen! Perfect and supreme Murshid is the one who gives the
beautifully written Ism-e-Allah or Ism-e-Mohammad, which are
the medium83, to the seeker of Allah and shows him the Reality.
Whatever the seeker observes through Ism-e-Allah and Ism-e-
Mohammad is undoubtedly true. The disciple who turns away
from such a Murshid certainly turns away from Ism-e-Allah and
Ism-e-Mohammad. The kalma tayyab also contains these two
holy names, so he actually turns away from kalma tayyab. The
one who turns away from the kalma tayyab becomes an apostate
and none of the prayers and worships of an apostate are accepted
in the court of Allah. Hazrat Ali said:
Meaning: Whoever taught me even a word is my mentor.

When a teacher starts teaching, he begins with
(With the name of Allah the most Beneficent, the most Merciful)
and it also contains Ism-e-Allah so his first lesson is the Ism-e-
Allah.
Listen! The nafs, tongue, heart, soul and body all are creations
while Ism-e-Allah is non-creation. Hence non-creation should be
remembered and recited through a non-creation.
What is the difference between Sahib-e-Ism (One who
possesses only the zikr of Ism-e-Allah) and Sahib-e-Musamma
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Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Ism-e-Mohammad are medium to recognize the Zaat (Holy
Essence of Allah and His Prophet Mohammad) through the zikr of their Ism (names).
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(One who possesses the Ism (name) as well as Zaat (the Essence)
i.e. the person on whom the Ism is applicable because he
possesses all the attributes of the Ism and Zaat)? Sahib-e-Ism
refers to the Murshid who possesses only the zikr of Ism of Allah
and Sahib-e-Musamma refers to the perfect Murshid who is
submerged in the Divine Essence. Sahib-e-Ism holds the status
of general creation while Sahib-e-Musamma is above the level of
creation i.e. he holds the status of non-creation. Zikr is forbidden
for the Sahib-e-Musamma because his inward and outward are
completely annihilated and always submerged in the Divine
Essence. One who is drowned in Divinity since eternity, his
name and existence are one with the Divine Essence, just as the
creation reflects the Creator.
Meaning: When the Creator (Allah) appeared in the existence of

the creation (the true seeker of Allah), it transformed into the
Creator. If you want to know the hidden Divine secrets, do not
be forgetful of the Creator.
Meaning: Meditation for a moment is better than the worships of

both the worlds.
This saying is about the meditation of the seeker who has
reached the final level of his spiritual journey i.e. Fana Fillah
through the medium of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and has become One
with the Essence. This level cannot be gained by any other zikr
or meditation and is not at all related with having the spectacle of
all the creations or becoming a man of authority. The Holy Prophet
said:
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Meaning: One runs from Allah towards Allah and Allah accepts
him. He must first separate from his nafs and then say “Allah”.
He must also transcend his soul and heart and then say “Allah”.
When he says Allah (after separating from everything), his soul
becomes an ocean of (Noor of) Allah.
When an Arif having Divine union engraves the contemplation
of medium of Ism-e-Allah Zaat on his heart and observes it, his
own existence vanishes in the Ism-e-Allah Zaat. He comes to
know that his existence has disappeared in Ism-e-Allah Zaat and
Ism-e-Allah Zaat has appeared in him. Engrossed in the observation
of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, inwardly and outwardly, he finds no delight
in the zikr. The intense effects of Ism-e-Allah Zaat envelop him
in such a way that he does not feel inclined to do the zikr.
Wherever he beholds, he observes only Ism-e-Allah Zaat even
when he is not seeing the (written) Ism-e-Allah Zaat physically
(i.e. the eyes of his soul observe Ism-e-Allah Zaat all around).
He dislikes everything other than Allah. His existence complies
with the fact meaning: “Only the Divine
Essence exists in the outward and inward of everything” and he
becomes the man of Divine riches as all the Divine riches are
bestowed upon him. His nafs becomes subtle and merges into
heart, the heart absorbs into the soul, the soul annihilates into the
sir‟r84, sir‟r is immersed in khafi85, khafi becomes one with Ana86
and Ana is manifested by Yakhfa87. This is called absolute unity.
Hence, the final point becomes the same as was the initial point
i.e. the beginning. The beginning is that the sole Divine Essence
manifested as the Noor of Mohammad. From the Noor of
84, 85, 86
These subtle inward parts or layers are discussed in citation number 46 on page 40.
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86
87
The Divine light which is manifested as Noor of Mohammad.
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Mohammad, the Divine Soul manifested. From the Divine Soul,

the Noor manifested which is the base of all creations and from
which the name, the (spiritual) body, the heart, the nafs, outward,
inward and the body made of four basic elements (air, water,
fire, earth) were created. If the Murshid is at the initial level and
the disciple at the final level then the Murshid can take the
disciple to the initial level88. The true Murshid carries the seeker
from level to level, stage to stage and station to station through
all the levels, stages and stations of pre-existence till eternity and
drowns him in the Divine Unity taking him back to the beginning
i.e. pre-existence in the same way. So that the seeker does not
remain unaware of the ways and customs of the path of Allah as
well as the levels and destinations from pre-existence till eternity
and physically as well as spiritually observes them in just a blink
of an eye. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Love of the homeland89 is part of faith.

Perfect Murshid is the one who takes the seeker to the realm of
Divine Oneness and returns him to the “emanation point”. What
is the “emanation point?” It is the point where the Noor (of
Mohammad) initially separated from Allah. Listen with true
devotion! Only the perfect Murshid can guide the seeker to the
emanation point and grants him immortality. One who understands,
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When Maulvi Nizamuddin Multani translated Ain-ul-Faqr, he got confused about the
meaning of this sentence. He read out this sentence to Pir Syed Bahadur Ali Shah (the
Shaikh of Sarwari Qadri order whose era is 1801-1934) and asked if it was correct. Pir
Bahadur Ali Shah sent him to Sultan Mohammad Abdul Aziz (spiritual successor of Pir
Bahadur Ali Shah) for the explanation of the sentence. Maulvi Nizamuddin went to him
and requested to explain the meaning of the sentence. Sultan Mohammad Abdul Aziz
explained, “The initial level of a Murshid means the „point of eternity‟ where there is
Oneness and nothing else. This Oneness is the origin of the multiplicity and diversity.
This material world is the last and final phase of the descent of the Divine Oneness
towards multiplicity. A disciple is at this last level which is the diverse world. Now the
excellence of the Murshid is that he takes his disciple from this material world, which is
the lowest of the low, to the highest level of the Divine realm of Oneness.” (Page 434-“The
Spiritual Guides of Sarwari Qadri Order” writer Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman)
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The realm of Divine unity is like a homeland for the seeker because his existence
originated from there.
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will understand. Certainly! The perfect and accomplished Murshid

grants the seeker the Ism-e-Allah Zaat and takes him to the
Divine Oneness just in a blink of an eye without letting him pass
through (the levels of gaining the knowledge about infinite)
attributes of Allah. Except having Divine Unification, all the other
levels and stations are just polytheism.
Meaning: Although the angels are close to Allah but they have
no access to the level of closeness about which the Holy Prophet
said:
Meaning: There are times of my such closeness to Allah when

neither any Prophet nor angel can come between us.
O’ seeker! Even if you completely immerse in Divine Oneness,
never go against the shariah and Sunnah90 of the Holy Prophet.
Meaning: If you see someone flying in the air or eating embers

or walking on water but he has renounced any one of my Sunnah
then give him a shoe beating.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Always say your prayer in time. Whoever

does not offer prayer in time is sinful.
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Listen! The Faqeer who is absorbed in Ism-e-Allah Zaat is

united with Allah, whether he is sane or insane or a majzoob.
Ism-e-Allah is recited by every living thing whether common or
special.
Meaning: It is the intense love which make one restless, otherwise

everyone wants to remain happy and blissful.
If a person is offended on hearing the full name of Allah
Allah Jal‟la Jala‟lohoo91, it is obvious that he does not
like Ism-e-Allah. Such a person is the enemy of Allah. Saying
Jal‟la Jala‟lohoo with the name of Allah is a farz-e-kifayah92. It
is a form of devotion to say Jal‟la Jala‟lohoo with the name of
Allah. True Muslims should be offended to hear the name of
Satan, and the Friends of Allah must not like the name of world
or worldly people. The doomsday would occur when there would
not remain any person on the earth who takes the name of Allah
sincerely. One who forbids from Ism-e-Allah Zaat and its zikr is
either hypocrite and infidel or jealous and arrogant. Ism-e-Allah
Zaat is the true guide in both the worlds. Only Allah! Everything
other than Allah is lust. Ism-e-Allah is:
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Allah is Almighty and Glorious
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General obligation whose performance by an adequate number absolves all.
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Meaning: Allah is the Noor of the earth and the skies. (Al-Noor-35)
CHAPTER II
DISCUSSION ABOUT THE THEOPHANIES
AND DETAIL OF THE STAGES OF NAFS,
SATAN AND EVERYTHING OTHER THAN
ALLAH
Keep in mind that theophanies are the refulgences of Divinity.

There are fourteen kinds of theophanies which radiate at fourteen
places. You must know that every theophany has its own
peculiar sign which can be known by its effects on the existence
of the seeker. Bearing the effects of theophanies is the most
difficult of all the stages of spiritual journey. Thousands of Arifs,
mystics having union, researchers, believers of Divine Oneness,
reciters and seekers drowned in the vortex of the ocean of the
theophanies, got depraved and never reached the destination
safely. Some of them became apostate, some were trapped by fame,
some became infidel and some indulged in wrong innovations and
deceptive tricks, hence all of them gradually reached the hell.
First is the theophany of Shariat which appears on the forehead
and enlightens the physical eye so the seeker observes the reality
of things. Second is the theophany of Tareeqat from which the
Noor radiates that sanctifies the heart. Third is the theophany of
Haqeeqat from which radiates the Noor that enlightens the soul.
Fourth is the theophany of Marifat whose Noor reaches the sir‟r
(the core) and reveals the Divine secret. Fifth is the theophany of
Ishq (Divine love) from which the Noor of secrets of Allah
radiate. Sixth is the theophany of Murshid which creates the
Noor of love and sincerity for the Murshid. Seventh is the
theophany of Faqr whose Noor discards everything other than
Allah from heart of the seeker. Eighth is the theophany of angels
from which the Noor of glorification of Allah radiates. Ninth is
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the theophany of jinns which creates insanity and madness.

Tenth is the theophany of nafs which creates lustful desires.
Eleventh is the theophany of Satan which inclines the person
towards sin and disobedience. Twelfth is the theophany of sun
which produces the lightning. Thirteenth is the theophany of
moon which produces the light of reflection. Fourteenth is the
theophany of medium of the Divine names i.e. Ism-e-Allah, Ism-
e-Lillah, Ism-e-LaHoo, Ism-e-Hoo, ninety nine beautiful names
of Allah, Ism-e-Faqr and Ism-e-Mohammad. From every letter of
each Divine name, a luminous and bright light like flame of a
candle rises which enlightens the seeker. However, the seeker
must not stay at any level of the theophanies, he should move
forward and should not feel proud on attaining any level. The
Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Rest (staying at a point) is forbidden upon the hearts

of the Saints.
Nafs is a devil.
Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! There is no remedy for the devil nafs. Burn

it in the fire of Ishq, only then this devil can be vanquished.
The theophanies shine upon the faces of the people of Shariat
and in the hearts of the people of Tareeqat. The people of Haqeeqat
are enlightened by the theophanies during their observation of
Divinity, while the people of Marifat are enlightened by the
theophanies from head to toe. You must have knowledge that
there are two kinds of exoteric theophanies which are the satanic
theophanies and the theophanies of nafs. The shine of gold and
silver is the satanic theophany and the lust for women is the
theophany of nafs. The Holy Prophet said:
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Meaning: Women are created as Satans for us. I seek refuge of

Allah from them and from the evil of Satans.
There are two other kinds of exoteric theophanies, one is the
theophany of the day and other is the theophany of night. Allah
says:
Meaning: And We (have) made the night a covering (by virtue of

its darkness). And We (have) made the day (a time) for (earning)
livelihood. (An-Naba-10,11)
During these two theophanies (i.e. during the day and night)
keep check on your nafs and feel the omnipresence of Allah.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! If I try to explain everything about the

theophanies, a number of books can be written to discuss their
common and special types.
Unless a seeker is completely immersed in Divine Oneness and
finds eternal Divine presence by crossing the level of
meaning: “death before dying”, he remains aggrieved at every
level and struggles to have the observation of the heaven (of
Divine closeness).
Meaning: When the physician (Murshid) treated the seeker

suffering from the fever of Ishq, he gave him the medicine which
took his life (i.e. he reached the level of “death before dying”
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and had union with the Beloved, hence he recovered from the
pain of separation from his Beloved).
Alas! Alas!
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! I died before death and gained eternal life

by the zikr of (No one is worthy of worship). A breath
taken with the sigh of (but only Allah) is better than every
worship.
The special theophany is that which manifests due to the pain
of love for Allah. When Prophet Moses requested Allah for His
vision, as mentioned in Quran:
Meaning: O’ Holy Lord! Show me (Your Beauty) so that I may

savour Your splendid sight. (Al-A’raf-143)
Allah replied, “O’ Moses! You have behaved impudently in
My court. I have promised that unless My beloved Prophet
Mohammad and his ummah behold Me, I will not show My
Beauty to anyone.” But Prophet Moses did not hear these words
out of his passion for the view of Allah and insisted, “O’ Holy
Lord! Show me (Your Beauty) so that I may savour Your splendid
sight.” Allah said, “O’ Moses! I will manifest My theophany but
you do not have the strength to behold it.” Prophet Moses replied,
“I will behold it O’ Allah.” Then Allah said, “Well, then come to
the mount Sinai, say two nafl94 prayer and sit respectfully.”
When Moses did as ordered, Allah descended His theophany due
to which mount Sinai crushed into pieces and Prophet Moses
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Supererogatory prayer
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fainted. He remained unconscious for three days and nights, as

Allah says:
Meaning: And Moses fainted. (Al-A’raf-143)

Allah said, “O’ Moses! I warned you that you do not have the
strength to behold Me.” Then Allah added “I blessed you with
the Divine disclosure of My Noor but you could not bear it. You
fainted and disclosed My secret. However, in the last era, My
such men will be born in the ummah of Prophet Mohammad that
I will shower the theophanies of My Noor thousand times a day
upon them but they will not transgress even a little, rather will
ask for more saying:
Meaning: I am still longing and passionate for my Beloved.

The fire of Ishq is such an intense blaze that cannot sustain
except in the heart of a Dervish who is a true lover of Allah. If
such a possessor of pain of true Divine love heaves a sigh out of
his strong overpowering passion, its intensity would burn each
and everything from east to west. There will not remain anything
on earth. When Prophet Moses was blessed with the theophanies
of Noor of Ishq, his countenance was illuminated with the
radiance of these theophanies. Allah ordered, “O’ Moses! Cover
your face with a veil”. All the veils that Moses put upon his face,
burnt due to the intense fire of Ishq. He made veils out of gold,
silver, iron and lead but all of them burnt. Then Allah said, “O’
Moses! If you wear thousand of such veils, none will sustain and
each of them will be burnt. However, if you make a veil out of
piece taken from the tattered dress of an alive hearted Faqeer
Arif Billah Fana Fillah who wears patched clothes, and put it
upon your face, it will not burn by your glance.” Moses followed
the orders and took a piece from the tattered dress of a Faqeer,
made a veil out of it and put it upon his face. It did not burn.
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Prophet Moses asked Allah, “O’ Allah! Why this veil did not
burn?” Allah replied “O’ Moses! It was made of the piece taken
from the dress of a Dervish. There is nothing in the existence of
such Dervishes except Me. Their being has perished by the
theophany of Divine secret of My zikr as they are absorbed in
My remembrance day and night.” Faqr is the secret of Allah and
Allah is the secret of Faqr. Faqeer is the real man while others
are just animals. Allah says in a Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: Man is My secret and I am his secret.
Meaning: I prostrated before my Holy Lord when there was

neither the pulput or mosque nor Kaaba or anything else. Neither
was there nafs, Satan, infidelity or Islam nor body, life, soul or
bones were created. Neither there were Prophet or Saints nor
anything which could be signified. O’ Bahoo! When there existed
nothing, how could I have existed. I must have been drowned in
the Divine Oneness being annihilated in Allah.
Meaning: It is the same now, as it was before.

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Meaning: What do you ask me about the beginning? Neither the

Pen, Throne or Chair were present then nor anything else but
Allah only. If you are asking that where were we, let me tell you
that we were with Allah and Allah was with us, there was
absolute Oneness and Divinity. There weren‟t any dimensions
nor time and space. Only Allah was present by the power of His
Own Nature. O’ Bahoo! Allah is transcendent and beyond time
and space, so the secret of the lovers of Allah who reach Him is
a hidden mystery.
Meaning: Safety is in Oneness while duality is full of troubles.
Meaning: Everything is carrion except the vision of Allah, that is

why true lovers seek only the vision of Allah.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! May this infamy prevail because the true

love flourishes when it is disgraced.
Then the Divine decree came! “O Moses! Your sight cannot
dominate a Fana Fillah Faqeer”. Hence it becomes evident that
Allah created the group of Faqeers and Dervishes with the soil of
Ishq and the theophanies of His Noor. I have read in Zaad-al-
Mujtaba that when Allah Almighty decided by the will of His
Divine Nature and Knowledge to manifest His lovers in the
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world of creations i.e. on the earth, he took soil from that earth
and made it pure by casting a glance of kindness, compassion,
love, passion, pleasure alongwith courage, happiness, generosity
and bliss. When it was purified, the refulgences of secrets of Ishq
appeared in that soil. It gained life and started dancing with
ecstasy, crying out of passionate love:
Meaning: I am longing to meet you.

At that time, Allah created his lovers from that soil.
Listen! Prophet Moses requested for the vision of Allah when
he was in the womb of her mother and said:
meaning: “O’ Lord! Show me (Your Beauty) so I may savour Your
splendid sight.” Allah said:
Meaning: And when Moses came at the time (set) by Us and his
Holy Lord spoke to him, he (ardently inspired to behold Him out
of the pleasure of hearing Allah’s voice and) submitted “O Holy
Lord, show me (Your Beauty) so that I may savour your sight.”
Allah said, “By no means can you look upon Me (directly) but
look towards the mountain. So, if it stays firm in its place then
soon will you behold My Beauty.” When his Holy Lord unveiled
the light (of His Divine Beauty) on to the mountain, (He) crushed
it into sand particles (with the intense Divine theophany) and
Moses fell down unconscious and when he recovered, he submitted,
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“Holy You are! And I turn to you in repentance and I am the first
of all the Momins.” (Allah) said, “O’ Moses! I have chosen you
and exalted you above all the people by My message and My
conversation. So hold fast to whatever I have bestowed upon you
and be among the grateful.” (Al-A'raf-143,144)
The spiritual observation is of fifteen kinds. Of them, fourteen
kinds are related to the fourteen layers of the physical world (i.e.
seven layers of earth and the seven skies). The fifteenth kind is
related to the observation of Allah in the realm of LaHoot 95
which is above both the worlds. It is the realm of absolute and
exact Divine Oneness. The explanation of all the fifteen kinds is
given: The observation gained by the glorification of Allah by
tongue, the observation of nafs, heart, soul, sun, moon, jinns,
angels, Satan, fire, air, soil, water and the observation of the
countenance of the Shaikh are the fourteen kinds of observations
related to the physical world. The fifteenth kind is the observation
of the Divine Oneness at the level of Fana Fillah Baqa Billah
which is the level of meaning: “When Faqr is
accomplished that is Allah”. On reaching this level only Allah
exists in the outward and inward of the seeker. He drowns in
Divine Oneness separating from the fourteen previous levels of
observation.
Meaning: Whoever beholds the countenance of Faqr all the time,

the hell fire is forbidden upon him.
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The world of absolute Divinity
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Meaning: Bahoo is One with Allah because Allah is One with

this humble slave.
My love for Him is eternal. People call me Bahoo because I
am always with Hoo (Bahoo is actually Ba-Hoo which means
“with Hoo”). May he (Bahoo) be blessed with peace in
hereafter.
Meaning: And peace be upon the one who follows guidance.

(Taha-47)
Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is just lust.
Meaning: You are a Divine theophany yourself, do not seek it

somewhere else. This secret theophany has made you exactly
Divine.
Meaning: The Noor of everything manifested from His Noor.

Whatever you see is actually Noor due to its origin of Noor.
Meaning: The theophany of Noor which Prophet Moses beheld

on the mount Sinai, manifests in my own existence by the Grace
of Allah.
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Meaning: Bahoo is always near and One with the Beloved. Had
you got the spiritual sight, you would also have beheld the Reality.
The most distinguished theophany is that which manifests
from the letters of Ism-e-Allah.
Meaning: You are arrogant about yourself and unaware of the

Reality. How can you have marifat of Allah as you are deprived
of the spiritual sight!
The medium of Ism-e-Azam is:
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On the doomsday when the lovers will be brought to the station

of Divine theophanies, Allah will order them, “Open your eyes”.
Each lover will be brought near Allah thousand times, every time
Allah will ask them to have His vision and will bless them with
His Personal theophany. Each time, when the theophany will
descend upon them, they will lay unconscious for seventy
thousand years. On regaining consciousness every time, they will
request “Is there any more?” Again the theophany
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Meaning: Allah will say, “Whose is the kingdom this day? (it will be added.) “It
belongs to Allah, the One the most Dominant.” (Al-Momin-16)
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Attributive name of Allah meaning: The Guide.
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Attributive name of Allah meaning: The Absolute Healer.
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will descend upon them and they will faint for another seventy
thousand years. Then they will return to the station fixed for
them. The real esoteric and exoteric theophany of Allah is the
existence of the Fana Fillah Faqeers who are the true lovers of
Allah and are full of theophanies from head to toe. It is related
that once all the Saints were gathered in the house of Hazrat
Rabia of Basra. When it was night, there was darkness in the
house. She did not have even a penny to buy oil to light the
lamp. The Saints could not see each other and were worried at
the situation. Hazrat Rabia of Basra (recited Ism-e-Allah and)
blew on her fingers, at once a light bright like the sun appeared
from two of her fingers. All the Saints were surprised to see this.
So, it is evident now that the existence of the Fana Fillah Faqeer
is all light of theophanies because a Faqeer is one with The One
and enlightened with the Noor and theophanies of Allah.
Meaning: Bahoo has completely transformed into a theophany of

Noor. I am Noor because I manifest the Divine Noor.
Meaning: You just acquire the (spiritual) sight which is capable to

have the vision of Divine Essence, we will reveal the manifestation
of the Divine Essence upon you.
It is disrespectful to blink an eye while beholding the Beloved.
The body of Faqeers is absolutely Noor contrary to the body of
common people which is made of the four basic elements i.e.
fire, water, soil and air. When a Faqeer wishes that he appears in
the form of fire, the fire of his body dominates his being and he
mixes with the fire becoming fire, when he wishes that he appears
in the form of water, the water of his body dominates his being
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and he mixes with the water becoming water. When a Faqeer

wishes that he becomes air, the air of his body dominates his
being and he mixes and flies with the air becoming air. When he
wishes to appear as soil, the soil of his body dominates his being
and he mixes with the soil becoming soil. The body of Faqeers is
a subtle and sublime entity created by Ishq which remains restless
without the Beloved. Unless they see their Beloved, they remain
anxious and bewildered from pre-existence till eternity. There
are four things which never rest due to longing i.e. the air, the
sun, the moon and the lover.
Listen! No one can become a true lover of Allah and a Faqeer
unless he renounces eleven things:
(1) Alchemy (2) Hoarding99 (3) Outward knowledge (4) Zikr100
(5) Meditation101 (6) Desire of heaven (7) Fear of hell (8) Love
of the world and worldly wealth (9) Inclination of people (10)
Desire of fame (11) Company of worldly people
Unless a seeker renounces all these things, he cannot reach the
level of Faqr Fana Fillah. The path of Allah can never be
travelled without taking the bayat102 of Murshid Kamil. A seeker
also has to kill his nafs and sacrifice his life in the way of Allah,
as worldly life is mortal. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Worldly life is just a day long and we are fasting in

that day.
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A Faqeer is not allowed to hoard any blessing, whether physical or spiritual, he must
spread it.
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A Faqeer should be so much absorbed in Allah that he forgets zikr and meditation.
When he becomes One with Allah he does not need to do zikr or meditation, or it can be
said that his zikr and meditation become transcendent just like himself.
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Oath of allegiance. When a person takes bayat of a Murshid, he becomes his disciple
and hands over himself to his Murshid i.e. the spiritual guide in exchange of spiritual
guidance. Bayat is a pact or covenant or rite of initiation into a Sufi way. This in fact is a
pact between Allah and His slave which eternally bonds a Murshid with his disciple.
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Meaning: This world is a shadow which has to vanish.

CHAPTER III
DISCUSSION ABOUT MURSHID AND THE
SEEKER OF ALLAH AND FAQR FANA
FILLAH BAQA BILLAH
One must know that who can be called the Murshid Kamil?
What qualities and attributes does he possess? How does he
submerge the seeker in the Divine Oneness and bless him with
presence in the holy Assembly of Prophet Mohammad? What
can be acquired from the Murshid? What is his own status and
rank? Murshid possesses Divine Powers as he is the Faqeer Fana
Fillah Baqa Billah (annihilated in Allah and immortal with Him).
Murshid is the giver of life (to the soul) and death (to the nafs)
and is indifferent to all the needs. He is like a Paras103 stone and
also like a touchstone. His glance is beneficent like the sun
which changes all the bad qualities of the seeker into good one.
He is like a dyer (who changes the inward colour of seeker by
diverting his attention from worldliness to Allah). Murshid is a
well informed person and is aware of all the qualities of a seeker
just like a betel leaf chooser is aware of the qualities of betel
leaves.
Meaning: The iron which touches Paras stone, at once turns into
gold.
The Murshid is virtuous like Prophet Mohammad and is more
kind than one‟s parents. He is the great leader and guide on the
way to Allah, bestower of jewels just like a mine of diamonds
and gems, a wave of munificence like an ocean filled with
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The stone which turns everything to gold that touches it.
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pearls, patron for every destination like a key for every lock,
indifferent to worldly wealth and free of all greeds. He loves the
seekers of Allah more than his own life. Murshid is the Dervish
having none of material luxuries. Murshid is like a corpse laver.
He is always in search of a seeker whose nafs is dead and who
wishes to reach the stage of meaning: “death
before dying” where his soul becomes alive and material body
dies. Only such a true seeker can suffer the hardships on the way
of Faqr, while the disobedient seekers are stubborn and follow
their own will. Murshid can also be compared to a potter who
makes pots out of earth. The earth does not dare to object before
the potter in whichever way he holds or moulds it.
Meaning: How can the earth dare to ask the potter what is he
doing with it and what is he making out of it?
The Murshid must be the knower of Allah and the seeker
should have complete trust upon him. Murshid is the real
companion of the seeker, about whom the Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: First find a companion, then set on the journey.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! The Murshids of this age want to grab more

and more wealth. The Murshid whose glance can turn soil into
gold (i.e. a common person into a lover and beloved of Allah) is
rare.
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Meaning: O’ Bahoo! The Murshids of this age are the lovers of

wealth and women. They are egoistic, arrogant and dark hearted.
Meaning: The true Murshids who are unified with Allah, burn in
the fire of His Ishq every moment day and night.
Listen! The existence of a human is like milk. Just like curd,
lassi104, butter and ghee are contained in the milk (as they all are
obtained after processing the milk), similarly nafs, qalb, soul and
sir‟r all are present at a particular point in the existence of
humans. When a little curd is added in the milk and it is left over
night, the milk converts into curd. When that curd is churned,
butter is produced which comes up and lassi is left below. Then
that butter is heated on fire which removes the impurities from
the butter and pure ghee is obtained. Just as a woman completes
her job by converting the milk into ghee, the Murshid should
also accomplish his task. He should show his disciple the points
of nafs, qalb, soul and sir‟r separately in his existence and should
also reveal upon him the point of Divine favour and the points of
knowledge of Shariat, Tareeqat, Haqeeqat and Marifat. He must
also make the disciple aware of the points of evil, Satan and the
inward diseases like greed, jealousy, arrogance etc. in his being,
all separately. Just as a butcher slaughters a goat, removes its
hide, separates the veins and other useless things from the edible
meat and throws them away, the Murshid should also separate
the evil from the existence of the seeker. The perfect and
supreme Murshid should be so much accomplished, if he is not
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The milky drink which is obtained on churning the curd.
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then the seeker should not follow him. One should follow four
Murshids i.e. Murshid of Shariat, Murshid of Tareeqat, Murshid
of Haqeeqat, Murshid of Marifat. Who is Murshid of Shariat?
One who teaches the basic pillars of Islam i.e. kalma, salat, fasting,
zakat and hajj. Who is Murshid of Tareeqat? One who makes his
disciples the true slaves of Allah and detaches them from both
the worlds. Who is Murshid of Haqeeqat? One who persuades
his disciples to sacrifice their life for Allah. Who is Murshid of
Marifat? One who blesses his disciples with Divine secrets and
acquaints them with the secret of Divinity. The Murshid who
cannot take his seekers to these levels is a fraud and cheat. When
you see a (so called) Faqeer who toils hard in austerity,
asceticism and abstinence but is unaware of the spirituality and
inward way to Allah, get to know that he is depraved and his end
will also be among the depraved ones.
There are two kinds of Faqeers. One are those who are the men
of outward ways and others are the men of inward ways. Those
who struggle outwardly by eating less but are unaware of the
inward, will end up in falsehood. Whatever the men of inward
eat, converts into Noor twice as much as they eat. The food of
Faqeers is Noor, their inward is like a stove, their heart is the
heavenly Kaaba, their sleep is presence before Allah and their
end is forgiven. For them, the ascetics are the labourers who
struggle to get place in paradise. Murshids are also of two kinds;
one is the Murshid who is a man of effective spiritual sight and
other is the Murshid who seeks wealth. Former is the Murshid
who grants eternal union with Allah and latter is the one who
demands his portion of wealth from the annual income of his
disciples. True Murshid is like a shady tree, he endures the severity
of weathers himself and provides shade and comfort to those
sitting under it. The Murshid should be against the (attractions
of) world and the perfect follower of religion, while the seeker
should trust him and should not hesitate to sacrifice wealth and
life for his Murshid. The Murshid should be like the Messenger
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of Allah and the seeker should be like a Friend of Allah,

otherwise they are cursed. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Renunciation of the world is the foundation of all

worships and love of the world is the root cause of all the evils.
Mediation (through the Murshid) is better than excellence gained
by knowledge. While committing sin, knowledge or excellence
cannot stop a person but mediation (Murshid) can. Just as
Prophet Yousaf (Joseph) was saved from the evil of Zulaikha
due to the mediation [of his Murshid and father, Prophet Yaqoob
(Jacob)]. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: A Shaikh among his devotees is like a Prophet among

his ummah.
Murshid is the one whose single glance makes the seeker
forget all his outward knowledge and acquaints him with both
the worlds. He can grant entire knowledge to an ignorant person
with just his one glance and let him know what he did not.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! You may be a knowledgeable, clement or a

wise person but without the mediation and guidance of a Murshid
you will be depraved from the right path.
Meaning: Mediation leads to higher levels.

Allah has also ordered:
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Meaning: Search a medium to (get closer to) Allah. (Al-Maidah-35)

Meaning: True disciple has no desire.

O’ Bahoo! What is meant by spiritual persuasion? It is to persuade
the seekers of Allah to renounce everything other than Allah.
Such persuasion is actually another name for having complete
trust upon Allah. The Murshid who is not a man of complete
trust upon Allah, can never be a man of spiritual persuasion. Zikr
of Allah and Ism-e-Allah Zaat are like lion. When the lion enters
a place, all the animals run away from there out of his fear.
Similarly, when zikr of Ism-e-Allah Zaat continues in the being
of the seeker, all the satanic distractions, illusions and dangers
are exterminated from his inward. However, if they remain, it
means the zikr has not affected him yet. True Murshid is an Arif.
Meaning: One who recognizes his Holy Lord becomes silent.

It is also related that he said:
Meaning: One who recognizes his Holy Lord expresses more.

The Arifs are also of three kinds i.e. the Arif (knower) of the
world, Arif of the hereafter and Arif of Allah. The Arif of the
world seeks worldly wealth, fame, respect, inclination from
people and wants to increase the number of his disciples. He uses
the name of his pious ancestors to earn respect from devotees,
builds monasteries, wanders in the earth and skies, shows miracles
and supernatural acts to attract people and wishes to have relations
with the kings. These are the attributes and ranks of eunuchs. The
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disciples of such an eunuch Murshid are also the same. Second

are the Arifs of hereafter who worship a lot just for the sake of
heaven and acquire austerity and abstinence out of the fear of
hell (i.e. none of their act is purely for Allah). They are the men
of outward knowledge (of religion). Their level is (inferior and
weak) like that of women and their disciples are also the same.
Meaning: O ascetic! Why do you frighten me of the fire of hell?

There is such an intense fire (of Ishq) inside me which can burn
even the hell.
Third is the Arif Billah who is the Arif of Allah, he is drowned
in the Divine Oneness and is blessed with presence before Allah.
Indifferent to the world and hereafter, he is happily occupied
with Allah. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is just lust.
The name of Allah starts with Alif105 “ ”, the word
“Insan”106 also starts with “ ”, attributive name of Allah
“Ahad”107 and the name of Prophet Mohammad “Ahmad”
also start with “ ”. Insan is the one who possesses the Divine
secret and Divine secret is another name of Faqeer. Allah says in
a Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: Insan is My secret and I am his secret.

That is why, real Insan (human) is the one who possesses this
secret. Prophet Mohammad is the real and perfect Insan (i.e. the
Insan-e-Kamil) and after him only those can be called the real
Insan who follow him completely. Hence, Insan is the messenger
of Allah and is the one who obeys the rules of Allah strictly.
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First letter of Arabic alphabets
106
True human
107
The One
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First letter of Adam is also „ ‟ just as the first letter of is

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, so Aadmi is the one who has the qualities of Adam,
otherwise he is just a social animal. One who is close to Allah
and His Prophet, is away from the sensual desires of nafs,
pleasures of the world and evil of the Satan. While, the one who
is close to the mundane world, satanic desires and lusts of the
ignorant nafs is away from Allah and His Prophet.
The absorption in Divinity has two stages. First is to have
presence in the holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad, second is
to drown in the Divine Oneness and reach the level of Fana
Fillah Baqa Billah. One blessed with the presence of the holy
assembly of Prophet Mohammad is called Arif while the one
drowned in Divinity is called “Muarif” (one whose marifat leads
to the marifat of Allah). The perfect Murshid is the Arif and the
accomplished Murshid is the Muarif. True Murshid must be
perfect as well as accomplished. The Arif Murshid is blessed with
the presence of holy assembly with his physical body while the
Muarif Murshid is blessed with the presence of holy assembly
with his spiritual being. When the Holy Prophet converses with
the Muarif Murshid, he cannot be seen by the members of the
assembly. They ask the Holy Prophet, “O’ lord! Whom are you
blessing with the privilege of your conversation?” He replies, “I
am talking to the Muarif whose physical body is on the earth and
spiritual being is present before us. He is my lover and the
beloved of Allah.” Allah says in a Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: There are My such Saints who are hidden beneath My

robe and no one knows them except Me.
When Allah blesses someone with the level of Muarif and
Fana Fillah Faqr, He also confers upon him the inward and
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Synonym of Insan in Persian, meaning: Son of Adam, the human.
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mystic knowledge of Faqr and makes him a scholar and proficient

of this knowledge. The way of miracles and supernatural acts is
ceased upon him because Faqr opens two ways, one is the way
of munificence and other is that of supernatural acts. The way of
munificence further opens two ways, one is of excellence gained
by the Grace of Allah, second is of arrogance. The Satan did not
choose the way of excellence and munificence, rather opted for
arrogance and supernatural acts. Hence, he was trapped in his
ego and claimed arrogantly meaning: “I am better than
him”. In the way of Faqr good or bad wish do not matter because
it takes time to fulfill the good or bad wish. Faqr is the way of
waham109 and spiritual attraction. The waham of Faqeers is the
Kindness and Mercy of Allah which will sustain till eternity
while the spiritual attraction and rage of the Faqeers is Wrath of
Allah. I seek refuge of Allah from it.
Murshid is like a mirror. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Momin is a mirror of other Momin.

There isn‟t any fault in the mirror, it shows the things exactly
as they are, black as black, red as red and yellow as yellow. The
Murshid first of all verifies the intention of the seeker that
whether he truly seeks Allah or anything other than Allah. Then
he takes the seeker of the Truth to the Truth and the seeker of
falsehood is left with the falsehood. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Everything returns to its origin.

The Murshid must beware of the disciple who spies on him.
Hazrat Ali said:
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Waham is the inward state of esoteric connection and spiritual conversation with Allah
which is possible only through the perfect Murshid.
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Meaning: The brothers of today are the spies upon faults.

The Murshid must test and check the disciple just like the
goldsmith checks the purity of gold by putting it into kiln. The
Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Certainly! Allah tests the Momins through afflictions

and calamities just as gold is tested by putting it in the fire.
Hazrat Ali said, “Stomach of a person is his enemy”. True Faqeer
is the one who desires nothing, if someone gives him anything he
does not refuse and if he gets something he does not hoard it.
Faqr is the knowledge of spiritual meeting while the knowledge
gained through other mystic ways is about the supernatural acts.
What is the difference between the two? Supernatural acts are
related with the world of Nasut (the physical world) while the
spiritual meeting is related with the world of LaHoot (the realm
of Divinity). Performing supernatural acts is just like showing
feats to people while the spiritual meeting means having the
honour of presence before the Holy Prophet and being drowned
in the Divine Oneness which is the level of lordliness adorned by
a Fana Fillah Baqa Billah Arif.
The seeker who is blessed with the presence of the holy
assembly of Prophet Mohammad at the level of Shariat is
unaware of the states of the presence of holy assembly at the
higher level of Tareeqat. The seeker who has the privilege of
presence of the holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad at the
level of Tareeqat does not know the reality of presence of holy
assembly at the level of Haqeeqat. How can a seeker who has the
honour of presence of holy assembly at the level of Haqeeqat
know what is going on in the holy assembly at the next level of
Marifat? The seeker having presence of holy assembly at the
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level of Marifat is totally unaware of the honour of presence

gained at the level of Ishq. The seeker who has the honour of
presence of holy assembly at the level of Ishq does not know the
reality of presence of holy assembly at the level of belovedness.
Whoever is loved by Allah, both the worlds surrender before
him. One who is blessed with the Divine presence at the level of
belovedness cannot know the reality of Divine presence gained
at the level of Fana Fillah. Hence everyone is blessed and
honoured according to his level but the Fana Fillah Faqeer is
aware of all the levels (as he has passed through all these levels
and has reached the ultimate level, so he is blessed with the
presence of holy assembly at all the levels simultaneously). The
Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Nothing remains hidden from the one who recognizes

Allah.
Real scholar is the one who is the seeker of Truth while
reverend is the one who seeks Allah only. Wise is the one who
fights against his nafs, while an accomplished person is the one
who leaves everything except the love of Allah and makes Allah
his eternal companion. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: One who gained knowledge for worldly purposes is an

infidel, one who gained knowledge to argue is a hypocrite and
the one who gained knowledge for Allah is the Muslim.
He also said:
Meaning: One who remains silent from saying the truth is a

dumb Satan.
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Knowledge is also of two kinds, the Divine knowledge and the

borrowed worldly knowledge. The Divine knowledge is the
knowledge about Allah which makes a person the seeker of
vision of Allah while the borrowed worldly knowledge makes a
person the seeker of carcass world. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Life of this world is like a sleep and its pleasures are
like wet dreams.
The knowledge which is gained for Allah and to learn about
the deeds which grant closeness to Allah, takes the person to the
level of (perfect follower of) Prophet Mohammad but the
knowledge which is acquired just to earn worldly benefits makes
one a follower of Abu Jahal. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The excuse may be considered valid but the ignorance

cannot.
The Murshid must be a scholar of Divine knowledge and the
seeker should be his student. The ignorants have no place here.
Hadith:
Meaning: Allah does not make the ignorants His friends.

Who is an ignorant? One who seeks the lusts of this world and
is the slave of the desires of his nafs. Such a person is against the
Divine scholars and the knowledge of Allah, hence is an infidel.
Allah says:
Meaning: And (they are) those who disbelieve and deny Our
revelations. (Al-Baqarah-39)
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Meaning: And there is no moving creature (living being) on the

earth but (that) its sustenance is (a bountiful obligation) upon
Allah. (Hud-6)
Meaning: And whoever puts his trust in Allah, then He (Allah) is

sufficient for him. (At-Talaq-3)
Meaning: Verily, Allah provides sustenance without measure to

whom He wills. (Aal-e-Imran-37)
So, seek the Giver and leave the sources. The Murshid shows
the direct way to the Giver and does not involve in sources.
Meaning: When your sustenance is fixed and written in your

destiny then why do you run after it? The Sustainer will provide
it to you Himself, you do not need to ask for it.
Allah says:
Meaning: We distribute among them their livelihood in this world.

(Al-Zukhruf-32)
Meaning: And Allah puts into action what He wills. (Abraham-27)
Meaning: Surely! Allah ordains what He wills. (Al-Maidah-1)

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In mysticism, there is a fixed rule for the Dervishes that the

night of starvation is a night of Meraj110 for the Dervish, as the
Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The night of starvation is a night of Meraj for the

Faqeers.
If a Dervish sleeps hungry at a place (i.e. no one from that
place offers him something to eat) then that place is destroyed
and ruined. Had there been no Dervishes, all the cities and towns
would have been turned in topsy turvy. From the Throne till deep
down the earth wherever there is life and population, it is
sustained only due to the prayers and benedictions of the
Dervishes. The perfect Murshid is the real Dervish, man of Allah
and Faqeer Fana Fillah Baqa Billah. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: An indigent is in the shelter of Allah.

Achieving the level of Murshid is not easy, one has to engross
oneself in the marifat of Allah annihilating one‟s ownself. The
level of Murshid complies with this verse:
Meaning: And (also recall the event) when Abraham said, “My
Lord, show me how you bring the dead to life”. Allah said, “Do
you not have faith?” He submitted, “Why not! (I do believe), but
(I wish) my heart is blessed with gratifying calm”. Allah ordained,
“Well, take four birds and tame them to feel attached to you,
then (slaughter them and) place a piece of each of them on each
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hill, then call them. They will come to you at high speed. And
know that surely Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.” (Al-Baqarah-260)
Meaning: Even my grave does the zikr of Hoo. It is such a

beautiful place of seclusion with Allah.
Meaning: Die before death.
Meaning: When you are worried about your matters, seek help
from the (sacred) souls.
O’ Allah! Take the life of Your lovers Yourself as Izrael is
stranger between You and Your lover. Who is a Murshid? One
who can give life to the heart and death to the nafs. When such a
Murshid becomes angry with a disobedient disciple, he gives life
to that disciple‟s nafs and death to his heart by his wrathful
attraction. Murshid is the one who is so much accomplished in
Faqr that he has forbidden everything upon himself except Allah.
He is an eternal pilgrim upon whom everything is unveiled. Only
such a perfect Murshid is successful. Even if he apparently
seems to be committing a sin, he is actually doing a virtuous
deed inwardly, just as the incident of Prophet Moses and Khidr is
narrated in surah Al-Kahf. Khidr made a hole in the boat of a
poor man, reconstructed a wall and killed a boy. When Prophet
Moses objected upon his actions, he said, as narrated in the Holy
Quran:
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Meaning: (Khidr) said, “This is the parting (time) between me

and you. Now I impart to you the truth of the matters about
which you have not been able to keep patience”. (Al-Kahf-78)
Prophet Moses had only the outward knowledge while Khidr
had the inward real knowledge. The scholars of outward knowledge
and the disciples are like Prophet Moses while the Faqeers are
like Khidr. That is why the Faqeers often commit acts like Khidr.
Murshid is like a physician and the disciple is like a patient.
When a physician treats a patient he gives him bitter and sweet
medicines and the patient must take those medicines so that he is
cured and healthy.
The word “Arif” has four letters111 and the
word “Murshid” also has four letters. By the
letter „ ‟ (M), he is a man of Murawat i.e. courtesy. By the letter
„ ‟ (R) he is a man of Riyazat i.e. devotion. By the letter „ ‟
(Sh) he is a man of Shauq i.e. passion. By the letter „ ‟ (D) he is
a man of Dard i.e. pain for Allah.
Listen! An eminent person said that offering salat and superegotary
prayers is the job of widows, fasting is just saving the food while
going for pilgrimage is like sight seeing, the real job of men is to
gain control over the heart. However, I say that offering salat and
superegotary prayers is the source of inward purification, fasting
for Allah is pleasing Him, going for pilgrimage is a proof of
strong faith, gaining control over the heart is the job of imperfect
ones, while seeing and recognizing Allah is the job of beginners.
The real achievement of true men of Allah is to annihilate
themselves and become One with Allah liberating from the
restrictions and limitations of human element and reach the level
of Fana Fillah Baqa Billah. Hence, Murshid must be a true man,
a person of solitude (with Allah) and compassionate. Allah said:
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According to Arabic alphabets
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Meaning: (The true believers) fight in the way of Allah. (An-Nisa-

76)
The rank of Murshid is not inheritable. The Murshid checks

the purity and impurity of the seekers. The level of a Murshid is
a great secret which cannot be acquired by selling or buying, it is
the most distinguished and special rank. (The seeker must have
the point of view that) my Murshid is the most distinguished and
my devotion for him is ultimate. There are common levels,
special levels, most special levels and the distinguished levels.
The distinguished level is the Divine secret. Since my Murshid
holds the distinguished level, so my faith upon him is perfect.
CHAPTER IV
DISCUSSION ABOUT OPPOSING AND
DOMINATING THE NAFS WITH THE HELP
OF ALLAH
The consent of Allah is in going against the nafs while the

pleasure of nafs is in the disobedience of Allah. What is nafs and
what are its qualities? It is like a snake and possesses the
qualities of infidels. One must first learn the spell to catch the
snake then try to capture it. Someone asked the snake, “Why do
you come out of your hole?” The snake replied, “When someone
takes the name of Allah outside my hole, it becomes compulsory
for me to sacrifice my life on the name of Allah.” Hence nafs is
like a snake, the body of man is like its hole, the zikr of Allah‟s
name is the spell to capture it. The infidel qualities of nafs
cannot be converted into Muslim qualities unless it recites kalma
tayyab and becomes Muslim by following
the shariah perfectly.
Meaning: Islam is the truth and infidelity is falsehood.
Meaning: If you want peace and bliss, behead your nafs. If you
want union with Allah, let His love overcome the love of all your
worldly relations.
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Meaning: When I beheaded the nafs (i.e. killed its desires), it

turned into a true man of Allah. No one can find the love of
Allah without killing the nafs (i.e. without turning the nafs into
slave of Allah. There are four levels of nafs; the nafs-e-ammarah
i.e. the ill commanding nafs, the nafs-e-lawamah i.e. the
repenting self, the nafs-e-mulhima i.e. the inspiring self which
warns before committing sin and the nafs-e-mutmaina i.e. the
satisfied self which never inclines towards the sin or worldliness.
Only the nafs-e-mutmaina can have union with Allah.)
Meaning: When I beheaded the nafs, it became my guide and

took me to Divinity carrying me across all the waystations.
Meaning: The obedient nafs is a better friend than one‟s dear

life. The ignorants do not know the importance of nafs.
Meaning: O nafs! Give up your pleasures forever so that Allah

makes you His intimate friend and fulfills all your objectives.
Meaning: If I kill my nafs, I will be wasted. I must kill its desires

only.
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Meaning: Then nafs will become my friend and I will become its
friend. The secret of Divine Oneness is an ocean and nafs is its
wave.
Meaning: The evil of nafs is a crazy giant, that giant must be

killed. If I gain control over myself I can easily kill that giant.
(If the evil of the nafs is exterminated it proclaims) “I am fed up
of infidelity and its ways, so I have embraced the Islamic faith”
(and will recite)
meaning: I testify that no one is worthy of worship but Allah, He
is One and has no partners, and I testify that Mohammad is Allah‟s
Messenger and beloved slave.
Allah says:
Meaning: And peace be upon him who follows guidance. (Taha-47)

The seeker of Allah must always go against the desires of nafs
and beware of it every moment because it is an infidel, a brigand
and an enemy hidden inside his being which can attack him any
time. So, the seeker ought not to be oblivious of it and should
ever fight against it whether he is sleeping or awake, experiencing
sobriety or spiritual intoxication. The Holy prophet said about
the fight against nafs:
Meaning: We return from the minor combat towards the major

one.
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The nafs has two categories (or levels) complying to the

existence of humans which is also of two kinds, the outward
physical existence and the subtle inward existence. The first
category includes the nafs-e-ammarah112, nafs-e-lawamah113 and
nafs-e-mulhima114. Ammarah is the name of brigand Satan which
commands the nafs-e-lawamah and nafs-e-lawamah commands
the nafs-e-mulhima. These three have alliance with each other and
are related with the (desires of) physical existence. The people
having any of these three levels of nafs are called the people of
nafs. While the second category includes the nafs-e-mutmaina115
which is linked with the subtle inward being of a person. This
nafs is obedient regarding the physical as well as spiritual deeds.
It is commanded by the soul and the soul is commanded by the
Divine favour. The person having nafs-e-mutmaina is absorbed
in zikr, meditation and other spiritual deeds. He is the Fana Fillah
Faqeer. All the Prophets, Sufis, Saints and true Momins possess
nafs-e-mutmaina and are called the people of marifat.
Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! When the secret of Divine Oneness is revealed

upon someone, he becomes accomplished in marifat of Allah.
Meaning: The secret of all the secrets is disclosed upon him and
there remains no veil between him and Allah. His eyes behold
Allah exactly as He is, hence the beloved meets the Beloved.
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The ill commanding inner self.
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The repenting inner self.
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The inspiring self which warns before committing sin.
115
The satisfied self which never inclines towards the sin or worldliness.
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Meaning: Do not be among the wrong innovators, drown in your

ownself and become independent of both the worlds.
Meaning: Allah is One, heart is also one. Seek the One and be
one with the One so you may become the Essence.
The infidels, hypocrites, sinners, reprobates, cursed ones and
drunkards have the nafs-e-ammarah. Allah says:
Meaning: Do not say prayer when you are drunk. (An-Nisa-43)

Those who have nafs-e-mutmaina are the people of soul and
the people of soul are the people of zikr, ecstasy, passion and
absorption in Allah. Absorption in Allah means that they are
drowned in Divine Oneness and completely annihilated in Allah.
Those annihilated in Allah have no nafs, only the Divine Essence
exists in their inward and outward. They possess the level of
(there is no one between them and Allah). It was
once asked from Hazrat Rabia of Basra, “What do you say about
nafs, Satan and worldliness?” She replied, “I am so much
absorbed in the Oneness of my Beloved and annihilated in Him
that I know nothing about nafs, Satan or worldliness.”
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! The desires of this nafs make one dependant

on others. One who has no nafs is independent of all needs.
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Hence, the Saints are independent of all needs, and the real Saints
are those who follow the path of Faqr, as,
meaning: “Faqr needs nothing (from anyone) except Allah”.
Though, everyone needs Faqr and everything is dependent on
Faqr.
Faqeers do not have nafs, rather they have nafas116. Nafas
means pas infas117 and pas infas is meant to do the special zikr
with inhale and exhale of breath i.e. none of the breath passes
without the zikr of Allah. The heart of the people of nafs-e-
ammarah is dead and their breath is hollow and useless.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Nothing is worse than nafs as it is the

fountainhead of all the evil desires. It claims to be God like
Pharoah.
Allah says:
Meaning: But as for him who feared standing in the presence of

his Lord and forbade his nafs from its appetites and lusts, Heaven
(of Allah’s closeness) will surely be (his) abode. (An-Nazi’at-40,41)
There are two kinds of people. One are the people of nafs who
are the slave of their appetites, second are the obedient men of
Allah who are only His slaves. The nafs, Satan and world all
three are infidel, rather they are corrupt tyrants. Whomsoever is
tormented by Allah becomes a slave of his nafs, then he is trapped
in his sensual desires and lusts. He becomes seeker of world and
its fake charms and beauty. He complies with the Satan in all
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Breath
117
Pas infas means inhale and exhale of breath.
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matters. To satisfy his hunger he sinks into the swamp of sins, as

a result his heart is darkened and deprived of the Noor and love
of Allah. He remains ignorant of the marifat of Allah and his
soul lies lifeless in his body like a dead in the grave. Allah says:
Meaning: Verily! Your wealth and progeny are merely a trial. (At-
Taghabun-15)
What is nafs? It is that which keeps you away from the way of
Allah. The desire of everything other than Allah is called nafs.
The world, nafs and Satan are our enemy. Satan is a brigand and
who is the satanic brigand for the Satan? It is arrogance, and how
is arrogance created? It is created by the Wrath of Allah and the
evil. My guide is the Holy Prophet and who is the guide of the
Holy Prophet? Allah Himself. How can one have guidance from
Allah? Through the Grace and Kindness of Allah.
Meaning: All good and evil are from Allah.
Meaning: I transformed the dust into human and fire into Satan.
No one knows that whatever happens is done by Me.
Adopting asceticism and piety, offering salat, fasting, performing
hajj and paying zakat all are against the nafs but do they kill the
nafs? I say „No‟. Zikr, meditation, mystic struggles, spiritual
observation, concentration, keeping check on oneself, having
spiritual union and presence are also against the nafs but do they
kill the nafs? I say „No‟. The recital rounds, glorification, recitation
of Quran, learning and discussing the laws of jurisprudence are
against the nafs as well but do they kill the nafs? I say „No‟.
Wearing felt, maintaining solitude and silence, adopting good
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deeds and manners, all are against the nafs but do they kill the
nafs? I say „No‟. Retiring into mystic seclusion for forty days,
roaming about in bewilderment and detaching from everything is
also against the nafs, but does the nafs die through them? I say
„No‟. Does the nafs die by acquiring and imparting knowledge or
by recognizing Allah which are also against the nafs? I say „No‟.
Meaning: Even if the nafs is made the king and acceded to the
throne, its nature will not change, it will remain greedy like a
dog.
If the nafs is kept hungry, it makes excuse that it does not have
the strength to worship and obey. If it is satiated, it becomes
rebellious and full of sensual desires and lusts. So, what is its
remedy? Allah says:
Meaning: Allah does not put under stress any soul more than its
endurance. (Al-Baqarah-286)
The person whose nafs remains satisfied when kept hungry and
finds pleasure in zikr and worships in this state, should keep it
hungry (i.e. should not fulfill its desires) by acquiring austerity
and ascetic discipline. While the person whose nafs does not find
peace in worships while being hungry and is attacked by satanic
distractions, illusions, sins and doubts, must not keep it hungry
and should fulfill its need. However, there is a condition for it that
on satiation, it must not indulge in evil and this satiety must be
meant only to provide it the strength for worships and obedience,
otherwise it is better to keep it half satiated and half hungry. Nafs
should be provided the sustenance of zikr of Allah, it should be
dressed in a shroud, an underground grave should be made its
house and it should be shown the spectacle of the day of
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accountability so that it is warned, controlled and purgated, as a

result the heart is also purified of all the filth. Then all the veils
between Allah and His slave are removed. The nafs stops
contention and becomes contented. It dies, following the order
“die before death”. What is nafs? It is like a fat
pig, companion of infidels, contemptible and conceited. Listen:
Meaning: There are hundreds of pigs in the being of a man, he

must kill those pigs or fasten them in chains.
The same nafs is a medium to reach Allah as well as the rebel
full of sensual desires. Nafs is the just ruler as well as the
depraved one due to its self conceit. Nafs is a religious scholar,
student, jurist, judge and a reckoner as well as a rogue, corrupt
and spoilt. The nafs is a righteous guide as well as an egoistic,
greedy and jealous. It is the sultan of knowers of Allah and Allah‟s
lover and beloved as well as a covetous begging from door to
door118. The real man and Faqeer is the one who ever keeps his
nafs busy in devotions and always goes against its desires. He
should fight and argue with the nafs reproaching it, “O’ nafs!
You have done nothing to please the Holy Lord, how would you
face Him on the doomsday and get salvation, you have not
recognized Allah as He deserved to be recognized.” The Prophets
and Saints trembled with the fear of Allah. His fear melted them
just like gold melts in a kiln. The Saints never sleep peacefully
or take rest, neither they ever indulge in the pleasures of world or
nafs so that they are not embarrassed before Allah and His
beloved Prophet on the doomsday. It is compulsory for you to
keep check upon all the states of your nafs and destroy all its
wishes. The Holy Prophet said:
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If the nafs has been purified and has reached the level of nafs-e-mutmaina then it is the
fountainhead of all the best attributes but if it has not, it is the worst evil.
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Meaning: Prayer of the oppressed is granted.

The Faqeers are the oppressed ones due to the tyranny of nafs.
Meaning: Fear from the prayer of the oppressed as there is no

veil between him and Allah.
These oppressed ones are the Faqeers who are disgusted of the
oppressions of nafs and are completely engrossed in Allah. One
must be afraid of the Faqeers because they are fully conscious
(of their nafs and devoted towards Allah) even in the state of
sensuality and are forever annihilated in Allah, that is why they
are the favourites of Allah. The nafs behaves like a beast in the
state of anger and becomes (stubborn and ignorant like) a child
while committing sin. When blessed with riches, it becomes
proud like Pharoah, where generosity is required it becomes
miser like Qaroon. When kept hungry, it acts like a mad dog and
when it is full, it walks heedlessly like a vain donkey.
Meaning: When nafs is hungry, it becomes a dog, when it is full

it becomes an ass.
If you satiate your nafs, it becomes disobedient and if you keep
it hungry, it wails and whines. If, while committing sin, the nafs is
tried to stop through the intercession of Allah, His Prophet, all the
Sufis, Saints and the pious ones or the verses of Holy Quran and
Hadiths are recited before it, or it is reminded of the horrible stages
of death, grave, cross questioning of Munkar119 and Nakeer120,
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The angels who cross question the dead in grave.
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record of deeds which will be checked on the doomsday,

accountability and helplessness of the day of reckoning, crossing
the bridge of Sirat121, decision about hell and heaven or is told
the laws of jurisprudence even then it never abstains from the
sin. However, by the Grace of Allah only the mediation of the
perfect Murshid‟s bayat can stop it from committing sin.
Whenever the seeker is inclined towards sin, verily the Murshid is
spiritually informed of it. He either directly intervenes between the
sin and the seeker or warns him through inspiration or sends him
an inward message or restrains him by force. That is why
mediation is far better than excellence. Excellence makes the people
of nafs needy of others while mediation makes one independent.
Nafs is dominant over the excellence while mediation dominates
the nafs. Excellence and knowledge are like gold and silver
while mediation is like sword of iron.
Meaning: The greedy nafs makes high demands and wants to

rule the world.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Begging for Allah is better than the throne

of the king. The seeker of Allah should seek only Allah from a
Faqeer.
Nafs is an infidel and a tyrant. It is very difficult for an infidel
to leave the infidel ways and for a tyrant to stop tyranny and earn
by fair means. However, when it is converted to a true Muslim,
then it becomes difficult for it to eat pork (i.e. do the forbidden
acts) or to adopt the infidel ways. Adorning ones physical being
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The narrow bridge in hereafter that provides the only approach to heaven.
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with gold and silver is the job of worldly people while killing the
nafs with the iron sword is the job of religious people. Fighting
against the nafs with an intention to get honour and riches is
absolute greed and hypocrisy. One must fight against the nafs
only to seek closeness of Allah. An alive nafs is either a Satan or
an evil giant or a wild ghost. What is the relation between nafs,
Satan and world? Nafs is the king, Satan is its vizier and world is
the mother of both which nourishes them. The Holy Prophet
said:
Meaning: Indeed! Satan always tries to vanquish the man.

The heart which cherishes love of the world is the dwelling of
Satan. Allah says:
Meaning: Then he who transgressed the limits. And preferred the

life of the world (to the hereafter). Hell would truly be (his)
abode. (An-Nazi’at-37-39)
The heart which is the dwelling of Satan is surrounded by four
demons; the khannas (the slinking whisperer which distracts
from the right path by creating delusions in the heart), khurtum
(the intoxicating evil which distracts by making one addicted of a
particular bad habit), vasvasa (the evil suggestions) and khatrat
(satanic dangers) which all are different forms of nafs. Veracity
is against the nafs. For the men of veracity who are drowned in
Divinity, presence and oblivion are the same, sleep and awakening
are the same. Allah says:
Meaning: And there is not a single object (in the entire universe)
but it glorifies Allah with His praise. (Bani Israil-44)
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Hence, one‟s heart must not be the dwelling of Satan. The nafs
which annihilates and merges in the soul, becomes one with the
soul, then it worships Allah just for the sake of Allah. Allah
asked Hazrat Rabia of Basra, “Why do you worship Me? Out of
the fear of hell or in the hope of heaven?” Hazrat Rabia replied,
“O’ Mighty Lord! If I worship You out of the fear of hell, do
burn me in the fire of hell, if I worship You in the hope of
heaven, deprive me of the heaven, but if I truly worship You for
Your sake only, then please do not deprive me of the vision of
Your Divine Beauty.”
It is related that once Shaikh Shibli came out of his khanqah122,
went to the residence of eunuchs and joined them. His disciples
inquired him the reason. He replied, “There are three groups of
people in the world; the men, the women and the eunuchs. The
real man is only Bayazid Bastami and the real woman is only
Rabia Basri, since I am neither of the two, so I joined this group.”
The people of zikr and meditation belong to the group of women
(inwardly), the people drowned in Divinity belong to the group
of men, while the worldly people are neither women nor men,
they are eunuchs. Listen! Satan said to Allah arrogantly, “I obeyed
You”. The Divine decree came, “I cursed you.” Adam submitted
humbly, “I committed sin”. The Divine decree came, “I forgave
you”. The obedience and devotion polluted with arrogance is just
a sin, the disobedience with a proper excuse is better than such
devotion. If you wish to reach the destination through the right
path, remove yourself from between you and Allah so that your
nafs is disgraced. It is related that once a Saint was sitting on his
prayer mat, his nafs appeared in his own form and sat before
him. The Saint says, “When I saw my form separate from me, I
asked, „Who are you?‟ It replied, „I am your nafs‟. At once, I
tried to capture and kill it but it told me that it cannot be killed in
this way, it can be killed only by going against it‟s wishes.”
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A place where Sufis reside to gain inward purity and spiritual elevation under the
supervision of a perfect Murshid.
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Meaning: Do you know what is nafs? It is an infidel in your

being. Only the infidels and non believers have friendship with
the nafs.
Beware of the nafs! May Allah save us:
Meaning: You have to confront with the infidel nafs. Just capture
it, it is a very rare prey.
Meaning: If you have a snake hidden in your sleeves, that is

better than having nafs within you.
Do you know what is nafs? It means covetousness. Unless you
get rid of covetousness completely you cannot be united with
Allah.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! The bird loses its life due to its greed for
the grain. It‟s maddening desire to get the grain does not let it see
the trap.
Covetousness is like a trap and world is like a grain, the covetous
ones are mad to get it. Those free of covetousness are never
trapped but the foolish and unwise people become its prey
because they fear from poverty not from Allah. Whosoever loves
Allah and Faqr becomes free of covetousness, he keeps his head
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high as he is independent of all needs. Covetousness is another

name of grief while Faqr, being One with Allah, faces no grief.
One who has nothing, is a Friend of Allah.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! One who is worried about the worldly gain,

is a mean fellow brought up by the world.
World is a Satan and people of nafs seek the evil of this Satan.
One day Hazrat Imam Azam reckoned the life long deeds of his
nafs and said, “O’ nafs, you are sixty years old, that makes
twenty one thousand and three hundred days123”. Then he heaved
a sigh and fainted. When he regained consciousness, his devotees
asked him what made him faint. He said, “I was analyzing the
deeds of my nafs during my whole life. I have turned sixty years
old, if I subtract the years of my immature age which is the age of
respite124, the age of my nafs is approximately sixteen thousand six
hundred and eighty five days. I asked it, „O’ nafs! You must have
committed at least twenty sins daily.‟ It denied. Then I asked,
„Ten sins per day?‟ It denied again. I asked, „Ok! Then you
surely have committed at least one sin everyday‟. It has to
confess. I said, 'If, for every sin, one stone was kept at a place, it
would have become a mountain and if a handful of dust was
gathered at a place it would have turned into a large heap. O
nafs! How you dared to do so much sins in spite of the fear of
accountability in the hereafter. Why you did not warn yourself
by recollecting that your forefather Prophet Adam was exiled
from the heaven and sent to the prison of this world as a
punishment on account of only one sin and Allah admonished
him by saying:
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According to lunar calendar which has 354-355 days a year.
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A person has been given respite till the age of thirteen years as he is considered a child
and an innocent.
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Meaning: And Adam made a mistake in (understanding) his Lord‟s

command. So he could not achieve the aim. (Taha-121)
Why were you so careless! After committing so many sins
how can a son of Adam hope to get salvation. Only one sin of
Azazeel125 made him the cursed one and he was named “Satan”.
Allah‟s curse for him was heard by the whole universe:
Meaning: And surely My curse is on you till the Day of Resurrection.

(Sad-78)
The person who weakens his nafs (by killing its desires), becomes
strong in faith. Whosoever controls his nafs, blocks the way of
Satan and lustful desires.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! If the inward self is filthy than what is the

use of wearing clean clothes. If the heart is filled with infidelity
and polytheism then prostrating on ground is of no benefit.
Those who satisfy their nafs, follow the Satan. They are the
enemies of Allah and people. Know that nafs and Satan work in
collaboration with each other as both are infidels. When one
imprisons his nafs, the Satan remains away from him. It can be
explained with the help of a parable. If two thieves enter a house
for robbery and one of them is caught, the other runs away. He
then does not come near the one who is caught because he feels
danger near him. One who does not capture the thief of nafs,
Satan remains near him and keeps him away from Allah.
Another parable is mentioned to describe it further. Nafs is like a
king and Satan is like its vizier. When the king is imprisoned, the
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vizier separates from him. One who does not imprison his nafs is
verily a fool. Another parable: If a falcon and sparrow are kept in
the same house, the sparrow feels no harm from the falcon if the
falcon is caged, similarly the nafs can do no harm if it is caged.
Allah says:
Meaning: He entered his paradise and he is cruel towards his

nafs. (Al-Kahf-35)
When a seeker is at the level of Shariat, his nafs is nafs-e-
ammarah so Allah orders him to kill his enemy nafs. O’ Allah!
Bless me with the eyes which can see and recognize the enemy
so that I may kill it. When the seeker progresses spiritually and
reaches the level of Tareeqat, his nafs becomes nafs-e-lawamah.
On reaching here, one must leave the pleasures of nafs, crush all
its appetites and become independent of all its desires. Then his
level is raised to „Haqeeqat‟ where his nafs becomes nafs-e-
mulhima. It should be burnt in the fire of Ishq and zikr of Allah
so that it approaches the level of i.e. death
before dying. Then the seeker reaches the next level i.e. Marifat
where his nafs becomes nafs-e-mutmaina. It repents from
everything other than Allah and becomes the perfect believer of
Oneness of Allah, sincerely obedient, the distinguished one and
confidant of the secrets of Prophet Mohammad. Verse of Quran:
Meaning: O’ our Lord! We seek Your forgiveness and to You (we

all) have to return. (Al-Baqarah-285)
What is achieved by the seeker at the level of nafs-e-mutmaina?
The perfect observation of Faqr Fana Fillah at the station beyond
all stations. Then, the maliciousness of the evil nafs comes to an
end.
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Meaning: O’ dear! The nafs (nafs-e-mutmaina) is an intimate

friend. Be with this friend and never be neglectful of it.
A Faqeer must keep progressing day by day. He must be the
one who burns in the fire of Ishq day and night, not the one who
hoards wealth. A parable: Nafs is like a person and Satan is like
his breath. If the person is alive, breath comes in and out of his
body. After his death, the breath cannot enter his body, similarly
when nafs is dead, the Satan cannot enter the body of a person.
No benefit can be gained by following the desolated way of
Satan, while if the heart is made the habitation (of the love and
zikr of Allah) it provides infinite benefits to the seeker. All the
devotions and worships are performed in the habitation and all
the sins and evils are committed in the desolated areas. Come to
the habitation, why have you stepped into the desolated place
and fulfilling the desires of your enemy nafs? It is better to let
the carcass nafs die than giving it life by satisfying it's wishes.
Allah can be recognized if the heart is enlightened. He cannot be
recognized in the darkness (of nafs). The darkness of heart is too
harmful even if it is for one night only, because a blind person
can never walk properly on a path in spite of his efforts. If he
comes across a thorn or a snake or a pit filled with filth, he
cannot know what is in front of him. One who controls his nafs,
is blessed with the consent and love of Allah and one who does
not, finds the consent and love of Satan.
Meaning: Nafs has been called a dog, do not be a dog keeper. Do

not become a Satan by following the Satan.
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Allah says:
Meaning: O’ children of Adam! Do not worship Satan, no doubt

he is your open enemy. (Ya-Sin-60)
The person whose heart is inclined towards the desires of nafs,
his heart darkens and becomes oblivious of the right path. When
the heart and nafs become one, being darkened completely, the
soul is weakened. However, if the soul and heart become one,
being enlightened, the nafs becomes weak, helpless and submissive.
The Faqeer Bahoo says that by following one word of guidance
from Allah, a person can overcome his nafs and Satan which are
worse than thousand enemies. The heart which is blessed by the
kind attention of Allah, is saved from the nafs and Satan. It is
written in Quran:
Meaning: And (O' Allah!) You confer honour on whom You will
and You dishonour whom You will. (Aal-e-Imran-26)
The nafs and Satan dare to be partners with Allah, they are the
companions of the depraved and cursed people. The Holy Prophet
said:
Meaning: One who is guided by Allah can be depraved by none

and the one who is depraved by Allah can find guidance by
none.
Those guided by Allah have been blessed with His Grace since
eternity. Single favour by judge is better than thousand witnesses,
single guidance by Allah is better than thousand worships and
devotions.
Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust.
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Meaning: O’ Allah! Your Grace is better than all my knowledge

and good deeds, as single favour from the judge is better than
thousand witnesses.
Allah says:
Meaning: Allah predominates His command. (Yusuf-21)

Everyone is under the command of Allah The All Wise, whether
the nafs, the Satan, the world or anything else. The Holy Prophet
said:
Meaning: Every act of the wise is based upon wisdom.

Nafs is like a thief while the seeker is like a guard. The guard
must beware of the thief. The perfect and accomplished Murshid
is a man of command by the decree of Allah. If a thief enters his
domain (i.e. the existence of his disciple), he kills him at once.
Then the domain of the existence of his disciple becomes
peaceful. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The kingdom belongs to him who conquers it.

If I remember my sins and the evil of nafs and Satan but forget
Allah, no sin is worse than this. The seeker‟s heart and soul
should be so much absorbed in the love and remembrance of
Allah and exploring the secret of Divine secrets in his existence
that he forgets the nafs, Satan, world, sensual appetites, greed,
vanity, jealousy etc. If you strive, strive for the sake of Allah,
whatever you wear, wear for the sake of Allah, whatever you
take, take for the sake of Allah only. Surpass the level of partial
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intellect and approach the level with wisdom where you are
blessed with the whole intellect i.e. the intellect of Allah. The
Arif Billah keeps check upon the nafs while the man of nafs
makes it his companion.
Listen! On the doomsday, when the passionate lovers and seekers
of the vision of Allah will be raised from their graves, Allah
Almighty will order to set their camp near the hell. They will
grace the camp with their presence and as soon as they will look
towards the hell, its fire will be extinguished and will become
extinct forever, then it will never burn again. When the hell fire
will cool down, people will be relieved from their punishment
and will find eternal bliss. That is why the camp of lovers will be
set near the hell. The world is also like fire and its greed is like
hell. When the Faqeers, who are the true men of Allah, pass by
the worldly people and bless them with their kind attention, the
greed is exterminated from them. Each breath of men of Allah is
absorbed in Allah because absorption in Allah is the source of
eternal bliss. One must try to get salvation from the hell fire of
the greed of the world as well as the hell fire of the hereafter (by
adopting the company of true Faqeers). Allah has promised,
“Whoever will take My name and the name of my beloved
Mohammad with love and sincerity of heart and verify it by
tongue saying (No one is worthy of
worship but only Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger), I will
not punish him because a friend never punishes a friend and a
lover never becomes angry with the beloved”. Allah says in a
Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: I am more kind towards my true slave than his

brothers and parents. So, if you truly seek Me you will find Me.
The true slave is the man of devotion. Faqeer Bahoo tells that
there are three levels of the kalma. First is , second is
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and third is . Thousands of seekers of Allah reach

to the level of , only some of them ascend to the level of
and some approach to the level of . (no
one is worthy of worship) is the level of negation and annihilation,
(but only Allah) is the level of affirmation. Saying at
the time of death obliterates all the sins of one‟s life and by
saying he is affirmed in the court of Allah while the
declaration of takes him to the level of Prophets
and Messengers of Allah. The hell fire is forbidden upon the
Prophets. This is the level of belovedness about which Allah
says:
Meaning: Whoever enters it, attains safety. (Aal-e-Imran-97)
And the Holy Prophet said meaning: “When

Faqr is accomplished that is Allah.”
The creation is (naught), while the name is non-creation.

The creation is related with the physical world but the Faqeers
are not. The true men of Allah are those who follow shariah
perfectly but inwardly they have attained ineffable heights and
always remain absorbed in the zikr and meditation. The Holy
Prophet said:
Meaning: Zikr without meditation is like barking of a dog.

Allah honours the Faqeers with the theophanies of His Noor by
virtue of their absorption in the love of Allah and confers upon
them their ultimate destination before the resurrection day.
One day angel Jibrail came in the holy court of Prophet
Mohammad and submitted, “O’ honourable Prophet! Today I have
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seen something which I had never seen before. In the town an

idol worshipper was invoking in front of an idol, „O’ my Holy
Lord! O’ my Holy Lord!‟ A voice came from the Holy Lordship,
„I am here My slave.‟ I asked humbly, „O’ Lord! Why are you
answering an idol worshipper in this way?‟ The decree came, „O’
Jibrail! Although he has forgotten who his Lord is, but I have
not. How can I not respond when someone calls My name. Fault
can never find way in My court. Since I am the Holy Lord, when
someone calls Me, I have to answer him”.
O‟ scholar! Shun arrogance and learn kindness from the Lord
Who is independent of all needs. A Saint came across an angel
and asked him where he was going. The angel replied, “A Jew is
tempted to catch fish but there are no fish in the water. Allah has
ordered me to take some fish out of the river and put in the water
where he is fishing, so that the Jew‟s desire is fulfilled and he
may not lose his hope from the holy court.” One must have faith
that if the Benevolent Lord blesses his enemies in such a manner,
how could He deprive His Friends of their wishes. Allah says:
Meaning: That is because Allah is the Protector of those who

believe and for sure the disbelievers do not have any protector.
(Mohammad-11)
Do you know that the accursed Satan was demoted from the
high rank of compassion to the cursed level of “the lowest of the
low” and was descended from Illiyin126 to Sijjeen127. Satan
collaborated with nafs and world revengefully and they vowed
together to disgrace and ruin the sons of Adam. Satan said, “I
shall drag them from obedience to disobedience and from
devotion to sin”. The world said, “I will adorn myself and show
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The dignified place where the souls of the pious ones will be kept before they will be
sent to heaven on the doomsday.
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The disgraced place where the sinners will be kept before sending them to hell on the
doomsday.
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them my fake beauty to attract them towards me and distract

from Allah, hence I will put them in afflictions and destroy them
by indulging in greed and lust.” The nafs said, “I will make them
crazy by arousing sensual desires in them and spoil them by
involving in seductive activities, hence prevent them from
travelling towards Allah.” A true seeker of Allah must recognize
his three enemies by their effects and activities and abstain from
the indecent deeds. The seeker gets rid of these enemies by the
Grace of Allah when he becomes an Arif Billah after
annihilating in Allah and reaches the final level of Tauheed128
crossing the levels of Tajreed129 and Tafreed130 by adopting
desirable attributes like trust, modesty, patience, fear of wrath of
Allah, hope of kindness of Allah and the love of Allah, and by
enlivening his heart with the zikr of Allah and the knowledge of
Shariat, Tareeqat, Haqeeqat and Marifat. The Faqeer finds it better
to hang himself to death than to go to the house of worldly
people. If anyone could find closeness of Allah by extra
devotions and worships, Satan must have found it because he
was extremely devoted towards worships and asceticism but that
made him arrogant and proud and he (as well as his devotion)
was rejected. If anyone could find closeness of Allah by
knowledge and excellence, Balam Baoor131 would have found it,
as in his institution twelve thousand inscribers remained busy in
writing each and every detail from one corner of the world to the
other. If anyone could find closeness of Allah by wealth and riches
of the world, Qaroon would have found it, as his treasures were
burried till deep down the earth. If someone could find closeness
of Allah by claiming to be God, Pharoah would have found it, as
he claimed to be God but was drowned in the river Nile. If
anyone could find closeness of Allah by ignorance, Abu Jahal
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Divine Oneness.
129, 130
Tajreed and Tafreed are two levels before one reaches the Divine Oneness. Tajreed
means negation of everything other than Allah. Tafreed means negation of one‟s ownself.
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131
An excellent scholar who was rejected by Allah due to his arrogance.
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would have found it. The closeness of Allah can only be found by
the true and sincere love for Allah. So, the dog of the
companions of cave was honoured due to his true love and
sincerity and was considered amongst men rather than amongst
the dogs, as mentioned in the holy Quran. Allah says:
Meaning: The sixth was their dog. These are the estimations
made without seeing. (Al-Kahf-22)
If you are actually a son of Adam, you must not be lesser than
a dog in the love of Allah.
There are three levels of Faqr. First is annihilation in i.e.

negation, second is becoming immortal in and third is the
final level of becoming the guide for people by becoming one
with . Faqeer is One with Allah and stranger from
everyone other than Allah. Whosoever is attached with the world
is detached from Allah, as attachment and detachment cannot occur
at the same time. Until one is annihilated, one cannot become
immortal. The nafs attracts a person towards four pleasures, all of
which are transitory, only the pleasure of closeness of Allah is
everlasting and immortal. First is the pleasure of eating, second
is the pleasure of mating, third is the pleasure of ruling upon
others and fourth is the pleasure of gaining knowledge to become
superior over others. When the fifth pleasure i.e. the pleasure of
closeness of Allah dominates the seeker of Allah, desire of all
the four pleasures is subdued and none of them attracts him. Just
like a sick person is not attracted towards food, similarly the
seeker of Allah who is ill with fever of love of Allah, is not
attracted towards worldly pleasures. There are ten organs in the
body of a person, one of them is on one side and the remaining
nine are on the other. Those nine organs are two ears, two eyes,
two hands, two feet and a tongue while the tenth is the stomach.
When the stomach is empty, the other nine organs are satiated.
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When the stomach is full, the nine are empty. The person whose
nafs is obedient and satisfied, his inner eyes are enlightened
whether his stomach is full or empty.
Meaning: When the physical eyes and the eyes of soul become
one, the seeker is blessed with the crown of Meraj and Divine
union. Such a seeker is all Noor even if his stomach is full because
those blessed with Divine union are eternally present before Allah,
where there is neither body nor soul or needs of the body.
Neither is there zikr or meditation nor anything else. O’ Bahoo!
Neither the worldly ranks like superiority of the shrine has any
importance there nor the physical appearance matters like wearing
tattered dress or a robe and a turban or holding a chaplet. Only
my heart is present there prostrating and beholding the Beloved.
Meaning: Salat is Meraj for Momin.

The level of Shariat is like a running well, the level of Tareeqat
is like a moving cloud, the level of Haqeeqat is like the blessing
of rain, the level of Marifat is like stream and the level of Ishq
and Divine love which is the level of Fana Fillah is like a deep
ocean. The ocean never becomes impure even if all the filth and
excrement is dropped into it. If thousands of water channels and
streams are taken out of the river, its water is not lessened and if
thousands of streams fall into the river, all of them become the
river. Shariat is the first door, Tareeqat is the second door,
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Haqeeqat is the third door, Marifat is the fourth door while Ishq
is the abode of love of the unique Reality. Whoever is limited to
Shariat, Tareeqat, Haqeeqat or Marifat is like a guard on the door
and is stranger to the Reality. Unless the seeker is absorbed in
the love, he is not acquainted with the Divine secrets. So, it is
evident that the scholars and the masters holding high ranks are
deprived of these secrets.
Meaning: You are embarrassed and disgraced because you are

far away from the Reality. The perplexed heart never finds the
Divine presence.
The heart is of two kinds, the alive and dead. The heart filled
with the Noor of zikr of Allah is the alive heart, while the heart
without the zikr of Allah is dead. A dead heart is disgraced and
ashamed in both the worlds. The seeker in whose heart the zikr of
Allah continues, the greatest veil (i.e. nafs) between him and Allah
is removed. Such a reciter of the zikr of heart travels spiritually
above the Throne and remains in the observation of Divinity
persistently and passionately. Neither does he wander nor chatter.
Meaning: You should be ashamed of the zikr which you do by

holding your breath but is empty of the love of Allah.
True reciter is the one who is guarded by the zikr, who remains
restless day and night so much so that zikr and meditation is
forbidden upon him. The men of zikr observe patience and are
ever grateful to Allah. The reciter who is not blessed with the
Divine presence is verily surrounded by satanic dangers. The
Holy Prophet said:
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Meaning: No salat without the presence of heart.
Meaning: When the stomach is empty, that is the time of Meraj.

This is also the approach of the imperfect ones, as adopting
patience and gratitude is the job of widows. When a woman‟s
husband dies, the other women advise her to be patient and be
thankful to Allah. However, Allah Almighty is Eternally Alive
and Forever Sustained, He never dies. The real patience and
gratitude which should be adopted by a seeker is that he should
be patient towards the world and abstain from its love, and he
should be thankful to Allah for granting him the Faqr which is
the heritage of Prophets. Allah appreciates the real patience and
gratitude by saying:
Meaning: Certainly! Allah is (always) with those who observe

patience. (Al-Baqarah-153)
Meaning: O’ family of Dawud (David)! Be grateful (to Allah).

And very few of My servants have been grateful. (As-Saba-13)
One may observe that no one is thankful upon Faqr except the
true reciter and the one who is patient in its true sense. The world
and all its blessings are not the real blessings, they will turn
painful in the hereafter. Allah says:
Meaning: And eat and drink but do not spend extravagantly

because certainly He does not like the extravagant. (Al-A’raf-31)
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This verse is included among the verses which contain

compulsory orders.
Meaning: Faqr is the way of Ishq, not of intellect or wisdom.

Whoever becomes perfect in Ishq is the real wise.
Meaning: Even if people reproach you, you must acquire the

knowledge which unites you with the Truth.
Meaning: Whatever you are studying is just ignorance because it

grants you the worldly ranks and honour which are mortal, hence
gaining such knowledge is foolishness.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Indigence is a better than worldly riches and

honour because it blesses with the company of the Divine Beloved.
Meaning: The path of ascetics is made through the nafs, the path
of aspirants is made through the heart and the path of knowers of
Allah is made through the soul.
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Meaning: O’ Bahoo! When the zikr of Allah occupied my heart,

there remained no veil of nafs and its desires.
CHAPTER V
DISCUSSION ABOUT SCHOLARS, FAQEERS
AND THE ZIKR OF ALLAH-THE EXALTED,
WORTHY AND GREAT
The true scholars are those who are the heirs of the Prophets,
promoters of the work of the Holy Prophet and custodian of the
Trust of Allah. Who is the seeker of knowledge? One who seeks
obedience and devotion. Who is a scholar? One who derives
something special from common things. Who is an accomplished
person? Whose beneficence is common for all and flowing
continuously like the water of river. Who is a wise person? Who
always keeps check upon his nafs. All these attributes and ranks
are possessed by the perfect Faqeers and Dervishes who practise
their knowledge. Knowledge is of two kinds, first is the knowledge
of Allah which teaches renunciation of the world and is acquired
by the men of devotion, second is the satanic knowledge which
teaches the love of world, greed, jealousy, arrogance and is
acquired by the men of wrong innovations. Who is a true seeker
of Allah? The virtuous one who circumambulates the heart (which
is the abode of Allah), one who is perfectly sincere like Hazrat
Abu Bakr Siddique, as “just” as Hazrat Umer, as modest as
Hazrat Usman, fighter against nafs and completely resigned to the
will of Allah like Hazrat Ali, man of shariah and Divine secrets
like the king of Prophets, Prophet Mohammad, as they all are the
real seekers of Allah. Allay says:
Meaning: Allah will raise those in ranks who are given knowledge.
(Al-Mujadila-11)
Knowledge should be accompanied with action upon it, it should

not be just a burden on one‟s mind. The Holy Prophet said:
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Meaning: Knowledge is just a point and its excess is meant to act

upon it.
One who does not act upon his knowledge, it becomes a
burden and torture for him. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The scholars are heirs of Prophets.

This saying is about those scholars who follow the Prophets
perfectly and become pure of all sins, lie, jealousy, arrogance
and covetousness. Then only the Truth remains in them and they
become the guide upon the path of righteousness. The Holy
Prophet said:
Meaning: Had there been no jealousy in the scholars, they would

have reached the level of Prophets.
The real scholars are those who first of all renounce the world,
then sacrifice all their possessions in the way of Allah following
the Sunnah of Holy Prophet and adopt all the beautiful morals of
the Holy Prophet, shun covetousness and hypocrisy and become
obedient and devoted towards Allah and merciful towards the
creation. The more they learn, the more they obey and act upon
their knowledge. One who does not excel in action, devotion and
mercy, is understood to be increasing in ignorance. Knowledge
means to know (how to obey Allah and reach close to Him). One
who does not know, is full of ignorance and sins.
What is the difference between common scholars and Faqeers?
The Faqeer is the real scholar. The real scholar is actually a Saint
and a Saint is One with Allah. The common scholars are the
seekers of knowledge while the Faqeers are the seekers of Allah.
The common scholars concentrate upon words, lines and pages
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while the Faqeers are the men of marifat, they concentrate upon
Allah who must be known. The scholars stress upon learning the
laws and formulas, the Faqeer advises to renounce the outward
knowledge and lays emphasis upon:
Meaning: And do the zikr of Allah excessively.

The scholars hope to earn gold and silver for their livelihood
by using their knowledge while the Faqeer is disgusted of the
worldly gain and worldly people. The scholars advise to get
attached with such worldly people who are virtuous and have
good reputation, Faqeer exhorts that it is absolutely unlawful to
be attached with worldly people. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The world is a carrion and its seekers are dogs.

The mankind has three groups; the worldly people, the scholars
and the Faqeers. When a day starts with the call of Azan early in
the morning, it is as if the angel Israfeel has blown the trumpet
and the doomsday has set. The worldly people are dragged towards
the hell fire which is actually their own greed, sensual desires and
evil of their sins, the scholars are taken towards their paradise i.e.
the knowledge of jurisprudence, while the men of Faqr are kept
engrossed in the vision of Divine Essence and zikr of Oneness of
Allah.
Meaning: The state in which one stays the whole life, one will
die in the same state and will be raised in the same.
The scholars are men of wisdom and awareness, the Faqeers
are men of Divine presence and inward conversation with Allah.
The men of wisdom are deprived of the vision of Allah as they
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are engrossed in reading and writing day and night. Only the
heart having Divine presence is desirable in the court of Allah.
What are the signs of the desirable heart? It is full of pain and
passion, blessed with presence and seeks death in the state of
perfect sanctity. Such a heart is clement, humble, steadfast upon
the straight path, aggrieved (with the pain of love of Allah),
absorbed in the remembrance of the eternal Lord, immersed in
Divine Oneness and disgusted of all the indecent satanic acts
“I seek refuge of Allah from the cursed
Satan.” has three Divine names. First is ,
second is and third is . (Allah) is inscribed on the
heart which recites Ism-e-Allah Zaat, Al-Rehman (the
most Compassionate and entirely Merciful) is inscribed on every
believer‟s and non believer‟s heart, as Allah provides sustenance
to everyone through this attribute, third is Al-Raheem (the
most Beneficent and specially Merciful) which is inscribed only
on the heart of true believers. The scholars advise to acquire
excellence in knowledge so that one may have access to the elite.
Faqeer advises to have complete trust in Allah and remain content
and happy. The scholars appreciate learning all branches of
knowledge, the Faqeer exhorts to drown in Allah and forget all
the bookish knowledge. The scholars consider that a man
without knowledge is like Abu Jahal, the Faqeer opines that the
real knowledge is contained in just one word (i.e. Ism-e-Allah)
through which the inspirational knowledge can be easily acquired,
as Allah says:
Meaning: We taught him Our inspirational knowledge. (Al-Kahf-65)

The scholars have fixed the nail of the world in their hearts but
the Faqeers have fixed it in the earth. The scholars are wise and
men of awareness while the Faqeer is a mad lover of Allah and man
of Divine presence. The Faqeer is engrossed in the zikr, meditation,
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spiritual acts and Divine Oneness, he is proficient in the inward

knowledge. Scholars are deprived of the spiritual deeds of zikr
and inward knowledge, hence have no marifat of Allah. Faqeer is
so down to earth that he considers himself the servant of Allah‟s
men while the scholars consider themselves the masters. The
scholars are just the counsellors while the Faqeers are the real
Messiah. A Messiah can give life to the dead. Faqeer knows how
to give life to a dead heart by the zikr of Allah. The Christ gave
life to the dead for only a day or a moment but the Faqeer gives
an eternal life to the heart through the pas-infas zikr of Allah, by
saying meaning: “Rise by the command of Allah”.

Allah says:
Meaning: All praise belongs to Allah alone, but most of them do

not know. Surely you shall die and they shall die. (Al-Zumar-29,30)
There is nothing but sorrow and grief in the grave. Faqr means
seeking only Allah which makes one independent of all, while
seeking the outward knowledge breeds covetousness. The Faqeer
remains restless and anxious due to the Ishq of Allah. The
knowledge without marifat of Allah is like food without salt. The
people of knowledge try to recognize Allah through questions
like who, where, when etc, that is to say their knowledge is based
on questioning and reasoning. The Holy Prophet said about such a
knowledge:
Meaning: Knowledge is the biggest veil (between Allah and man).

Faqeer recognizes Allah without reasoning and questioning
because in Faqr one becomes selfless forgetting even himself.
Faqeer is a man of spiritual sight while scholars are men of
letters. A servant of Allah‟s men is superior than the ruler. The
Holy Prophet declared:
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Meaning: The ruler of a nation is their servant and is superior to

them.
Although the scholars have high ranks but Faqeer Bahoo says
that in spite of their high ranks, they are unaware of the spiritual
and mystic way that leads to Allah. The attention of scholars is
towards the blessings and pleasures of the world but the Faqeer
is attentive towards the fear of the hereafter. The scholars say
that paradise is a beautiful and bountiful place. Faqeer says that
everything except the vision of Allah is contemptible and abject.
Scholars consider that a Faqeer is crazy. The Faqeer considers
that the scholars are stranger to Allah. Scholars say that acquiring
the knowledge of science and logic is good. Faqeer says that
without the remembrance of Allah, one‟s life goes waste and
acquiring only the bookish knowledge is just foolishness. Faqeer
is a true seeker of Maula (Allah) and Maula has four
letters which refer to four signs of the seeker of Allah
that he possesses by the effects of these four letters. By the letter
(M) he does not fulfill the “Murad” (desire) of his nafs and
remains Mahw (engrossed) in the marifat, by the letter (W) he
is ever drowned in Wahdaniyat (Oneness), by the letter (L) he
is Laiq-e-Deedar (capable of the vision of Allah) and is cut off
from the contemptible world, by the letter (Y) he is so
absorbed in the Yad (remembrance) of Allah that he forgets his
wealth, children and even himself.
Who is the seeker of Ilm (knowledge)? Ilm has three

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letters . Letter (I) refers to Intellect and its related
things. Letter (L) is for La-Yusabbeh (not glorifying
Allah) as he is a seeker of the world looking for help in earning
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The Arabic alphabet „ ‟ gives sound of all vowels a, e, i, o, u.
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the livelihood. By the letter (M) he wishes to inherit the Meraas

(inheritance) of his father. An ascetic without knowledge is just
a fuel for hell. You must act upon your knowledge if you want to
have Divine union. The knowledge that is not practised is just
foolishness. Asceticism without knowledge is like a seed in saline
soil, and knowledge without asceticism is like dead in the grave.
The scholars are surprised, “Where does the Faqeer get the hidden
and inspirational knowledge?” The Faqeer replies, “My teacher
is the Eternal and Ever-Existing Lord”. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Whatever good morals I learnt, I learnt from my Holy

Lord.
If there is eternal life, it is only in the knowledge (of Allah). If
there is bliss, it is only in marifat of Allah. If there is passion, it
is only in the love of Allah. If there is fervour, it is only in the
zikr of Allah. If there is enlightening observation, it is in the
mystic struggle. If there is happiness, it is in Faqr. If there is
eagerness of the one who is desirous (of vision of Allah), it is in
union. If there is light, it is in the real knowledge. If there is
darkness, it is in ignorance. If there is respect and honour, it is in
marifat. The Dervishes and men of Divine love can never gain
the Divine presence unless they get isolated (inwardly) and
detached from people and all their dear relations. Only after being
separated from everyone other than Allah one can find the Divine
presence. Faqeer Bahoo says that the seeker of Allah must be
courteous towards his fellow men and adopt good morals like
Prophet Mohammad. If closeness of Allah could be gained by
doing mystic struggle in solitude, then the hens would also have
gained it (as they adopt solitude to hatch their eggs). Whoever
found closeness of Allah, found it by the company of Faqeers the
true men of Allah who are immersed in Divine Oneness.
Whoever found unification with Allah found it through a human
being not though a jinn or angel. The way of Allah is narrower
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and thinner than a hair and it leads to annihilation in the Divine

Essence. Its narrowness can be described as:
Meaning: Until the camel passes through the eye of a needle. (Al-
A’raf-40)
Being a Faqeer is not an easy or delightful job, it is to bear

pain and burn in the fire of Ishq of Allah day and night. The
Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Beholding the face of a cruel133 darkens the heart.
Meaning: There is a key to everything and the key to heaven is

the love of Faqeers.
Shaikh Wajid Kirmani says that on the doomsday Allah will
order the Faqeers to go near the Sirat bridge and the Balance134
and look for the people who would have done any good to them
in the world. If some of them would be stuck there, Allah will
allow the Faqeers to take them to the heaven with themselves. On
the doomsday a man will be brought before Allah who would have
fulfilled all the obligations like offering the salat, fasting, paying
zakat, performing hajj and all the other obligatory acts but Allah
will order the angels to take him to hell for punishment. That man
will ask Allah, “O’ Allah! I have performed so many pious deeds
following the religion of Prophet Mohammad, what evil I have
done due to which I am being sent to hell?” It will be
commanded from Allah “O’ man you turn away from my
Dervishes in the world so I also turn away from you and throw
your worships back upon you.” Then a person will be brought
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Here cruel means the one who seeks world instead of Allah.
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The pair of scales that will measure the good and bad deeds on the doomsday.
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who would be full of faults and sins. Allah will order the angels
to take him to heaven. He would be surprised that how could he
be sent to the heaven. Allah will say, “O’ man! You got a blessing
in the world but you gave it to the Dervishes out of your love for
them. So, by the benediction of their prayer for you, I hereby
send you to heaven. You loved them ardently, no blessing is
better and superior than the love of Faqeers and Dervishes.”
What is meant by (Faqr needs nothing)? Even if the
Faqeer and his family starve to death, he demands nothing from
anyone as . Faqeer knows alchemy but he does not
take its advantage as . Ism-e-Allah is engraved on
the heart of the Faqeer whose power makes him rich and
generous but he needs nothing as . Faqeer spends each
and everything in the way of Allah and then does not pay any
heed to the world as . Faqeer has no inclination towards
the world or worldly people, he wishes nothing but Allah as
. The tongue of Faqeer is the sword of Allah (whatever
he says is done) and he is the man of word. Allah fulfills all his
desires but he does not desire anything as . Faqeer has
reached the status of the Mohammadan Reality that is why he
does not need anything as .
If a Faqeer is illiterate, he must get knowledge and if he has
knowledge, he must acquire marifat, only then he can recognize
and know Allah. There are two levels of Faqeer, either he is a
learned person and reciter of Quran or a knower of Allah and
Musamma135. Where there is the transcendent Reality all alone,
there are not any rituals and customs. If you are in oblivion,
beware, if you are sleeping, awake. The Holy Prophet said:
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One who possesses the Ism (name) and Zaat (the Essence) i.e. the person on whom the
Ism is applicable because he possesses all the attributes of the Ism and Zaat.
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Meaning: My eyes sleep but my heart does not.
Meaning: My heart beholds My Holy Lord.
Meaning: My Lord is ever awake while I am sleeping. How can I

find him in sleep!
One who is knowledgeable can understand the way of Faqr
properly. Whereas, one who is self-conceited, goes depraved.
One who is ignorant of the knowledge of Allah and the way of
Faqr, his outward knowledge is a burden upon him and a sin
equal to hundred sins. A Faqeer can gain nothing without the
sanctification of nafs, purgation of innerself and enlightenment
of the soul. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: There is a burnisher for everything and the burnisher

of heart is the zikr of Allah.
There are four points of nafs in the body of a person. First is
the tongue which is used for nonsense and loose talk, second is
the heart which is occupied by the misapprehensions and satanic
delusions, third is the belly button from where the sensual
desires arise, fourth point is around the heart which is filled with
greed, jealousy, arrogance, self-conceit, hypocrisy, malice and
spite. These four points are burning in the fire of these evils and
this fire cannot be extinguished except with the water of zikr of
Allah. The scholars are not aware of these four because they
have not adopted the way of Ishq and marifat of Allah rather
opted for the way of greed, jealousy and arrogance. One who is
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the man of vision, ever remains in the observation of the

luminous tablet of mind and soul.
Meaning: When I will die and buried under the soil, even then
my heart, soul and body will be reciting the zikr of Allah.
Meaning: When the angels Munkar and Nakeer will come to

cross question me in the grave, I will welcome them and tell
them about the zikr of Allah.
Meaning: They will say to me, “O’ the one who is sleeping in
this grave! It is a beautiful place for seclusion with Allah. Stay in
His company forever.”
Meaning: The grave of a Faqeer is better than an alive man with

dead heart. If you visit the shrine of a Faqeer and pray for
anything, you will be granted.
Meaning: Certainly the Saints of Allah do not die, they just shift
from one home to another.
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Meaning: Death is a bridge which unites the lover with the beloved.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Only the seeker whose heart is alive but the
wishes of physical body are dead is blessed with the union of
Beloved Allah. A person with alive body but dead heart is
deprived of the Truth.
Allah says:
Meaning: And he who believes in Allah, Allah guides his heart.

(At-Taghabun-11)
Meaning: My Prophet Mohammad Mustafa is such a great

Prophet that Allah has forgiven all my sins due to his intercession.
Prophet Christ submitted before Allah for his nation:
Meaning: If you torment them, they are only Your servants and
if You forgive them, you are indeed All-Mighty, All-Wise. (Al-
Maidah-118)
Quran states:
Meaning: Allah specifies to His Mercy whom He wills and Allah

is the Lord of infinite Bounty. (Aal-e-Imran-74)
The real Faqeer Dervish is the one who gives his sustenance to
others. He grants to the needy people whatever he gets in this
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world, whether in the form of oblations or in any other form. If

he gets something in the day, he does not save it for the night
and if he gets something in the night, he does not save it for the
next day. He spends each and everything in the way of Allah. A
Faqeer must be a man of authority. Closeness of Allah can be
acquired through two things; one is by gaining excellence i.e.
attaining the knowledge of totality, second is by the Grace of
Allah which is actually the way of Faqr and marifat. Excellence
also needs the Grace of Allah. The scholar needs (the help and
guidance from) the Faqeer but the Faqeer does not need (help of)
the scholar because he is blessed with the beneficence of direct
knowledge from Allah, as Allah says:
Meaning: We taught him Our inspirational knowledge. (Al-Kahf-65)

Knowledge is just a step not the destination.
Meaning: Keep everything other than Allah away from your

heart and enlighten it by drowning in the Noor of Ishq and Divine
Oneness.
Meaning: O’ dear! When (the wishes of) your physical body will
be dead, then your heart will be enlivened and you will become
an enlightened theophany from head to toe.
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Meaning: The seeing power of heart is better and stronger than

the power of physical eyes as it can show you the beauty of the
Beloved in just a moment and take you to the level of Haq-ul-
Yaqeen (the final level of faith).
Meaning: If you want to have union with Allah, it is not possible

unless your soul and inward become One with Him (by annihilating
in Him).
Meaning: One who is not united with Allah remains ignorant in

spite of his excellence, all his knowledge is just verbosity.
Listen! When you know that Allah is Independent of all needs
and the most Generous while everyone except Allah is dependant
and indigent, then why you do not feel ashamed while begging from
the dependants and indigents turning away from the Independent
and Generous. You must only ask Allah for everything. If you
truly consider that Allah is the All-Powerful and all others are
weak, then do not be afraid of those weak ones when Allah the
All-Powerful is helping you. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Not even a particle can move without the permission

of Allah.
A Faqeer Dervish is One with Allah just as he was in eternity
(when Allah was alone and there was no creation). When a
Faqeer is doing the zikr engrossed in Allah, the sky says, “I wish
I was the earth, sitting upon which, the Faqeer is engrossed in
zikr of Allah.” While the earth says, “All praises for Allah, I am
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so blessed that I am having the pleasure from the zikr of Allah.”

When every cell, hair, flesh, bones, skin, brain, heart, soul i.e.
each and every part of the body of the seeker of Allah does the
zikr of Ism-e-Allah and Allah responds to his zikr by saying
meaning: “I am here My slave”, the angels feel
envious that they had been prostrating and glorifying Allah all
their life but Allah never responded to them in this way, they
wish that they were humans. Therefore, recognize your importance
O’ slave of Allah and be amongst the special ones.
Meaning: When one or two persons sit and do the zikr of Allah
for one or two moments, the heavens bow before the earth on
which they sit.
The true seeker of Allah has only Allah in his blood, flesh,
bones and skin i.e. outward and inward, but the condition is that
he has crossed the stages of duality i.e. he has become One with
Allah.
This Faqeer Bahoo exhorts that whoever wants to have vision
and closeness of Allah, must acquire Faqr which is the way of
zikr, meditation, Ishq, love and marifat of Allah. One who wants
to have castles and houries in the paradise should adopt piety,
devotion, extra worships, keep fasts, offer salat, pay zakat, perform
hajj, recite Quran and follow all the fundamentals of Islam. While,
the one who opts for hell, indulges in following his sensual
desires, Satanism and evils of his nafs. Such a person never thinks
before speaking and eats whatever food comes before him, he
never considers what is forbidden and what is allowed. Such a
person is a libertine, hypocrite and a friend of infidels. The Holy
Prophet said:
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Meaning: One who loves (the ways and people of) a nation,
belongs to that nation.
Listen! One day Hazrat Bayazid Bastami was having secret
conversation with Allah. Allah asked him, “O’ Bayazid! Why do
you work so hard and do tough mystic struggle? Do you want to
reach the Throne?” He replied, “O’ Allah! The Throne is a place
of spiritual people, I am not one of them.” Allah asked, “Do you
want to reach the Chair?” He replied, “O’ Allah! The Chair is a
place for cherubim. I am not a cherub.” Then He asked, “Do you
want to reach the sky?” Bayazid Bastami replied, “Sky is a place
for angels and I am not an angel.” Allah asked, “Do you want to
have place in the paradise?” He replied, “Paradise is for the
ascetics while I am not an ascetic”. Then Allah inquired, “Do
you want hell?” Bayazid replied, “Hell is for the disbelievers, I
am not a disbeliever.” Allah asked with kindness, “Do you want
Me? What would you do if you could not find Me?” Listening
this, Bayazid Bastami prostrated before Allah and gave his life to
his Beloved.
Meaning: They were imperfect in their love for Allah that is why
they could not bear even a little fire of His love and gave life
with a sigh. The true lover is that who burns in the fire of love
perpetually.
Meaning: The true lover burns in this fire saying, “Even if my

whole existence is burnt to ashes in the hell, I would not be
attentive towards anyone or anything except Allah.”
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Meaning: You must not disobey or object upon the order of

Allah even if your throat is cut. The lovers of Allah give their
life but never reveal His secrets.
Meaning: Why do you want reward from Allah like the labourers
demand wages of their labour. You should only seek the consent
of Allah.
The Fana Fillah Faqeer is the one who is drowned in the
Divine Oneness in such a manner that he does not even seek
Allah, as closeness of Allah is sought by those who are separate
and away from Him. One must attain Oneness with Allah. Who
is the medium between Allah and His slave? The Murshid. What
can be received from the Murshid? Love of Allah. What is
attained through the love of Allah? The revelation of the secret
of Divine secrets. What can be gained through these revelations?
The fear of death. Where does the fear of death lead to? To the
station of amazement. What comes after the station of amazement?
The station of annihilation. Which station comes after the station
of annihilation? The station of hope and immortality. Where do
these two lead to? The level of meaning: “death
before dying”. What level is attained after this level? The level
of meaning: “Certainly! The Saints of Allah
never die.” The Faqeer is a man of perfect submission, rather he
is beyond the impacts of destiny. You are welcomed at this level.
A prophetic tradition narrates that the Holy Prophet said, “One
day the angel Jibrail came to me and told me that a Muslim is
grateful to Allah that He has made him a Muslim not a Jew. A
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Jew thanks Allah that He has made him a Jew not a Christian. A
Christian is grateful to Allah that Allah has made him a Christian
not a Zoroastrian. A Zoroastrian is thankful to Allah that He has
made him a Zoroastrian not a hypocrite. A hypocrite thanks Allah
that He has made him a hypocrite not a polytheist. A polytheist
thanks Allah that He has made him a polytheist not an atheist.
An atheist is grateful to Allah for making him an atheist not an
infidel. An infidel thanks Allah that He has made him an infidel
not a dog. A dog thanks Allah for making him a dog not a pig
while a pig is grateful to Allah for making him a pig not the one
who leaves prayer.
It is related that once Shaikh Jalaluddin Tabrizi went to meet
Qazi Deewan who was also called Najmuddin Sinai. Shaikh
Jalaluddin asked what Najmuddin Sinai was doing? He was told
that Sinai was offering the salat. Shaikh Jalaluddin asked, “Does
he know how to offer the salat?” Sinai overheard these words, he
at once came to Shaikh Jalaluddin and asked what he meant by
saying so? Shaikh explained, “I said so because the salat of
scholars is different from the salat of Faqeers. The scholars do
not offer salat unless they know the direction of Qibla136. If they
do not know the exact direction, they make a supposition and
offer the salat facing the direction in which their heart is
satisfied. The Faqeers do not offer prayer unless they view the
Throne with their eyes.” Then Shaikh Jalaluddin returned and
Sinai came back to his house. That night Sinai dreamt that
Shaikh Jalaluddin was offering his salat at the Throne. He woke
up in the state of fear. Next day he want to meet Shaikh Jalaluddin
and said, “Please forgive me, I am really sorry, I was unaware”.
Shaikh said, “O’ Najmuddin! You saw me offering salat at the
Throne, but this is the lowest rank of the Dervishes, their actual
station is above than that. If I reveal it upon you, you would not
be able to bear it and will perish due to the abundant effects of
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The direction of Kaaba, facing towards which the Muslims offer salat.
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Noor.” When a Dervish progresses from this initial level and

reaches seventy thousand stations above than that, he views
himself offering salat five times every day with the dwellers of
the Throne at the Throne. When he returns from there, he finds
himself in Kaaba. On returning from there, he views all the
worlds between his two fingers. O’ Dervish! This is the initial
state of the Dervish who crosses seventy thousand levels above
the Throne. When he crosses all these, he reaches the station
beyond all stations. No one knows about his rank except Allah.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! The lovers of Allah do not need to adopt

asceticism, excessive prayers or seclusion. They bear the pain of
Ishq of Divine Unity and reach every destination due to the
power of Ishq.
The Faqeer Bahoo says that all the stations are satanic except
the station of Fana Fillah. It is related that one day Shaikh Junaid
Baghdadi and Shaikh Shibli went out of the city to a desert.
When it was the time of salat, they performed ablution to offer
the salat. In the meantime a woodcutter came there, he put down
the bundle of woods that he was carrying, performed ablution
and joined the Shaikhs. Due to their insight, they recognized that
the woodcutter was a Saint. They made him their Imam137. During
the salat, he prolonged the bowing and prostrating than usual. After
completing the salat, they asked him the reason for prolonging
bowing and prostrating. That Saint replied, “When I glorified
Allah while bowing and prostrating, I did not raise my head
unless I heard a reply of (I am here My slave) from
my Lord, that is why they were prolonged.” The salat in which
the worshipper is not answered in this way is not a proper salat,
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One who conducts the salat.
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it is just a perplexed state of heart. As, Allah is Eternally Alive,

He is not an idol made of stone and soil, so worshipping Him is not
like worshipping a dead idol who cannot answer its worshippers.
Meaning: No salat without the presence of heart.

Salat is being One with Allah, not a sorrowful separation from
Him. This Faqeer Bahoo says that those who offer real salat, get
the answer of while prostrating in their daily five
times prayer but the Arif Billah gets this response every moment
from the Holy Lord. Allah says:
Meaning: You remember Me, I shall remember you. (Al-Baqarah-

152)
If I say Allah once, He answers me twenty times through

inspiration by saying , . This level of getting
inspiration is easy to achieve. A true man must approach to the
level of Fana Fillah by drowning in the Divine Oneness.
Meaning: Neither was there Adam, nor Eve, Moses, Noah or the
Mount Sinai. There wasn‟t any Prophet or Saint but I was present
in the form of Noor. When there was nothing and naught, Allah
was there and I was enjoying seclusion with Him in the Divine
sanctuary.
Listen! One‟s ownself and Allah cannot be contained in one
existence simultaneously just as water and fire cannot be contained
in one vessel.
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Meaning: God and devil both are present inside oneself. When
one becomes a true lover of Allah, the devil turns mad and is
killed by the power of love of Allah.
Meaning: Your self-conceit and ego has made you oblivious of

the fact that your inward is infidel that is why you do not
recognize Allah.
Meaning: The pure hearts of the beloveds of Allah are luminous

and enlightened. Whoever beholds their reality, crazily circle
around them like a moth.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! The poor lover is always engrossed in the

Beloved and ecstatically sings beautiful songs in His love.
O’ Bahoo! What is Faqr and what is its reality?
Meaning: What do you ask me about the reality of Faqr! The

Throne and the Chair are way below the level of Faqr.
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Faqr cannot be gained by ten things, one of them is on one side

and the rest on the other.
Meaning: Ten things are dear to every person. If nine of them are
satiated but one is hungry, the person can think wisely and
distinguish between right and wrong. If the nine are hungry but
one is full, the person cannot reach the secret of Divinity and
drowns in other than Allah. The nine are: two ears, two eyes, two
hands, two feet and the mouth, while the tenth is the stomach
which is attached with the nafs. It is an evil, it must be killed. O’
Bahoo! The full stomach is a Satan and the fountainhead of all
the evil and sensual desires. If you want to reach Allah, you must
abstain of these desires.
Meaning: There is a preventive measure for everything and the

preventive measure for sins is to ask forgiveness from Allah.
Meaning: When a person sincerely asks for forgiveness after

committing sins, no doubt Allah pardons him.
The stomach of the cruel worldly people is a Satan while the

stomach of men of Allah is filled with passion for Allah. They eat
the food of this world but do the tasks of the other world, like the
camel which eat thorns and carries load. The Holy Prophet said:
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Meaning: Divine observation is gained through spiritual struggle.
Allah says:
Meaning: Surely! The righteous ones will be successful. (Al-Naba-

31)
Meaning: There are two kinds of people; the scholars who practise
their knowledge and those who learn from their knowledge, all
the others are just like animals.
Meaning: All the true scholars die as the pure ones.
The distinguished Faqeer is the one who always fears from

Allah. Allah says:
Meaning: Surely those who fear their Lord unseen, for them is
forgiveness and great reward. (Al-Mulk-12)
If knowledge had any value without practising upon it, it would

surely have benefitted the Satan and saved it from being depraved.
Whoever gains the knowledge but falls for wrong innovations is
like a malicious devil. He must not be trusted upon. The Satan
acquired knowledge for fifty thousand years and then taught this
knowledge to the angels for another fifty thousand years. Allah
says:
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Meaning: He refused and showed arrogance and became one of

the disbelievers. (Al-Baqarah-34)
If ignorance could be of any use, it would have guided Abu-

Jahal towards righteousness. The path of Allah can be found
neither through knowledge nor through ignorance, it is only found
through the pure love of Allah and is granted only to those whom
Allah blesses with His Divine favour. The men of true love of
Allah are those who admit that Allah and His beloved Prophet
Mohammad are Omnipresent and All-Seeing. If you wish that
Allah may be pleased with you, get engrossed in gaining the marifat
of Divine Oneness, love Allah most sincerely and ever remain in
His company. If you wish that the Holy Prophet may be pleased
with you, renounce the world and follow his shariah perfectly. If
you want that you may be included in the good books of scholars,
give them gold and silver and serve them. If you want to please
the Faqeers, join them with sanctity of heart because they observe
the hearts. Give your heart to them and take theirs as their heart
contains the eternal kingdom. If you wish that you find the Truth
and have union with Allah then you must do four things; firstly,
do not fulfill the desires of your nafs, secondly, be brave and win
the battle (against nafs, Satan and the world), thirdly, be passionate
and anxious for the vision of Allah, fourthly get intimated with
the Divine secrets. You must also adopt twelve very important
things, of which four are related with the Faqeers, four with the
scholars and four with the worldly people. The four important
things related with the Faqeers are; (a) Feel ashamed while
disobeying Allah (b) Be passionate to perform spiritual deeds for
Allah (c) Be vigil with an awakened heart (d) Prevent yourself from
the sensual desires of nafs. Four important things related with the
scholars are; (a) Follow all the rules of Islam (b) Obey the shariah
(c) Be a conscious and awared person (d) Shun covetousness. The
four things related with the worldly people from which a seeker of
Allah must abstain are; (a) Evil of the Satan (b) Shamelessness,
the worldly people are shameless (c) Haste, which is an attribute
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of Satan (d) The covet of worldly people which is like the flame of
fire.
The seekers who love Allah sincerely always keep away from
sins. Even a little particle of Divine love is better than gaining
excellence in jurisprudence and the devotion of seventy years
because only by virtue of Divine love a seeker becomes confidant
of the secrets of the Divine Oneness and Lordliness. While the
arrogance created due to excessive knowledge and devotions
deprives one of these blessings. Allah says:
Meaning: They love others than Allah as they should have loved
Allah alone. But the true believers love Allah strongly. (Al-
Baqarah-165)
The righteous ones have nothing to do with the people of

wrong innovations. Allah says:
Meaning: You cannot guide (on the right path) whom you please,
It is Allah who guides whom He wills. (Al-Qasas-56)
Meaning: Allah (as a result of their own choice) has set a seal on
their hearts and their ears and there is a blindfold (set) over their
eyes, and for them there is a severe torment. (Al-Baqarah-7)
Meaning: They are deaf, dumb and blind. So they will not return
(to the right path). (Al-Baqarah-18)
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Meaning: And no bearer of burden will bear another‟s burden (of

sins). (Al-Fatir-18)
Meaning: To renounce even a minor wrong innovation is better

than the worship of both the worlds.
The ignorant who follows wrong innovations and depravity is

like Abu-Jahal who was stubborn upon his ignorance. He can be
saved from depravity only in one way i.e. by following the Holy
Prophet completely. Listen! One who does not believe in the
eternal life of the Holy Prophet, his faith is confiscated.
Meaning: The Holy Prophet entrusted his nation in the care of

Allah and found an eternal life.
The life of nafs, heart, soul, core, Ishq, Divine love and the life
of zikr, meditation, religion and Faqr Fana Fillah are gained by
having perfect belief that Allah the Eternally Alive is always
with us and that the Holy Prophet has got everlasting life. The
Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The faith is bare, its dress is piety, its adornment is

modesty and knowledge is its outcome.
A Faqeer is a pacifist. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: No one amongst you can be a Momin (true believer)

unless he likes the same for his brother what he likes for himself.
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One whose faith is dead, indulges in hypocrisy, infidelity, sins

and love of the world. I seek refuge of Allah from it. The medium
of the following impression contains solution of all problems of
both the worlds:
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Meaning: There is nothing but Hoo in both the worlds.
CHAPTER VI
DISCUSSION ABOUT MURAQBAH139,

SPIRITUAL OBSERVATION, DREAMS AND
THEIR INTERPRETATION AND
ABSORPTION IN DIVINE ONENESS BEING
FANA FILLAH
What is the real muraqbah and what is the purpose of doing

muraqbah? Muraqbah is the guard against everything other than
Allah and the source to reach Oneness of Allah. Muraqbah is the
love for Allah which leads to the level of absorption in the
Eternally Alive Entity and to the everlasting levels of “death
before dying”. It grants the seeker the observation of the states of
Divine presence and takes him to the highest level of spiritual
journey where he is blessed with the secret of Divine secrets and
is honoured with presence of the holy assembly of Prophet
Mohammad. Muraqbah of a true believer acquaints him with the
secrets of marifat while muraqbah of a hypocrite takes him to the
lowest levels, hence it is just immoral and makes one infidel.
Meaning: A hypocrite neither has knowledge and wisdom nor he

knows anything about the reality or faith, like an infidel dervish
who has no share in world or religion.
Muraqbah can be; the general muraqbah, the special muraqbah,
the superior muraqbah, the distinguished muraqbah, the muraqbah
of Ishq, the muraqbah of Divine love and the muraqbah of Fana-al-
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Spiritual meditation and concentration
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Fana140 which takes to the level of Fana Fillah Baqa Billah and
drowns the seeker in Divine Oneness such that he becomes
unaware of himself as well as others, neither he knows anything
about levels nor destinations and gets completely immersed in
Divinity. The physical being of the practitioner of muraqbah is
like a grave and muraqbah is like his soul. During muraqbah, his
soul travels above the earth and skies, views the Throne, the
Chair, the Tablet and the Pen and returns to the body of the
practitioner of muraqbah just like a spirit returns to the grave.
The true men of muraqbah are those who seek nothing but Allah
and see nothing but the Divine Beauty.
Meaning: The (intense) love of The Beautiful makes his lover

one with Him in flesh and bones.
He becomes one with The One and is forgiven absolutely.
Meaning: Adopt the company of Allah.

Muraqbah may be resembled with the sun. When the sun rises
everything becomes bright and obvious from east to west and
from earth to the skies. Muraqbah is also like the full moon among
stars. When the possessor of muraqbah opens his eyes, his sight
burns everything and there remains no veil between him and
Allah.
The real muraqbah can be of various kinds, the muraqbah of
zikr and meditation, muraqbah of the Divine presence, muraqbah
of Fana Fi Shaikh141, muraqbah of Fana Fillah, muraqbah of Fana Fi
Hoo, muraqbah of Fana Fi Faqr, muraqbah of Fana Fi Mohammad,
muraqbah of annihilation of nafs, muraqbah of annihilation in
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Annihilation after annihilation
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Annihilation in the Murshid
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the ninety nine beautiful names of Allah. Some other kinds of

muraqbah are; the muraqbah performed with open eyes, muraqbah
performed to get the secrets, muraqbah of high flight like falcon
and there is also a fake muraqbah which is like the cat lies in
ambush to catch the cunning rat. If someone sees cattle and
animals or gold and silver in the muraqbah, it means that his
muraqbah is related with the physical world and he is still
wandering in the desert of worldly desires. This shows that the
zikr of Allah has not affected him yet. Its remedy is that he must
leave the desires and pleasures of the world. If someone sees the
orchards, rivers, greenery of spring, castles, houries and palaces
of the heaven, it means that his heart is still filthy and rusty and
it cannot be purgated except by the spiritual attention of Murshid
Kamil. The evil and satanic distractions have still surrounded his
heart, which shows that the zikr he has been doing is not the
proper and real sultani zikr (the zikr of Hoo). What is the sign of
real and special sultani zikr? One who does the special sultani
zikr of Allah with the tongue, he only talks about the zikr of
Allah, words of Allah, words of the Holy Prophet and sayings of
the Saints and discusses nothing else. He does not see the
strangers (for him everyone other than Allah is stranger) as it is
forbidden by Allah to see the strangers and he feels ashamed of
disobeying Allah. One who practises the special zikr of heart, the
eyes of his heart open. With these eyes he sees nothing but the
name of Allah through the zikr of Allah. The love of world is
obliterated from his heart and he becomes independent of wishes.
His physical senses cease to work (as his spiritual senses start
working and dominate his physical senses) and he is blessed with
the power of seeing into the hearts. His heart becomes pellucid
like mirror after complete purgation. One who practises the zikr
of soul, the eyes of his soul open. With these eyes he clearly
views the holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad and enters it. He
approaches the level of “death before dying” and gains the power
of seeing into the graves. Such a seeker always fears from Allah,
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he remains in the state of amazement and is liberated from

jealousy and everything other than Allah. One who practises the
zikr of sir‟r, his eyes of sir‟r open and he can view everything
from pre-existence till eternity and becomes confidant of the
Divine secrets. Everything from above the sky till deep below the
earth comes under his view. He approaches the level
meaning: “Faqr needs nothing (from anyone)
except Allah.” At this level he gains authority upon everything
from above the Throne till deep down the nether regions, it is
upto him whether to shake them or keep them in their state. Such
a person is called the Faqeer who is the possessor of muraqbah,
possessor of perfect authority and master of the worlds.
The person who is still fallen in the ditch of love of money, his
muraqbah is like the cat‟s ambush to catch the mouse. There are
four levels of muraqbah which are related with four stations.
Muraqbah of the seeker who is at the level of Shariat and follows
its rules and practises devotions, is related to the Nasut (physical
world), whatever he sees in muraqbah is just limited to this
physical world. Second is the muraqbah of the seeker who is at
the level of Malakut (i.e. the world of symbolic forms or the
angelic world), he is a man of recitals and spiritual practices
through which he gains purity like the angels and gets attributed
with the angelic qualities, whatever he sees in his muraqbah is
related with the station of Malakut. Third is the muraqbah of the
seekers who have reached the level of Jabrut (the world of soul
or the connecting world). They are the men of zikr of Allah,
whatever they observe in their muraqbah is related with the
Jabrut, here they behold angel Jibrail. Fourth is the muraqbah of
the seekers who have approached LaHoot (the world of absolute
Divinity), they are the men of marifat, whatever they see in their
muraqbah is related with LaHoot. Fifth is the muraqbah of
Divine presence and absorption in the state of Fana Fillah, this
muraqbah is related with the station of Lordliness. Here, the
seeker views nothing except Allah and Divine Oneness. At this
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level the seeker views a new grandeur of Allah every day

according to the verse: meaning: “Everyday
His Glory manifests a new”. (Al-Rehman-29) This is the station of
the seeker who approaches this level of lordliness.
Meaning: By the Grace of Allah, you are called His slave. Even
then if you are indulged in sins, then it is sheer injustice.
Meaning: Allah is always with you, you must have the sight to
see Him. Reality can be beheld only with the enlightened insight.
Meaning: The dead hearted seekers of the carrion world are

oblivious of Allah, while the men of vision of Allah are oblivious
of themselves.
Meaning: The love of the Beloved is sufficient for Bahoo. He

lives in LaHoot and sees beyond all the stations.
It is right for the people of servitude who are limited to the
physical world to see Allah in their dream. Hazrat Imam Azam
saw Allah in his dream and people of Shariat considered it true.
For the people of lordliness, beholding Allah is possible while
having spiritual observation in muraqbah during which they
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become unconscious of themselves. Beholding Allah in such a

state complies with the following verses:
Meaning: Do the zikr of your Holy Lord when you forgot

(everything). (Al-Kahf-24)
Meaning: And whoever is blind (to the vision of Allah) in this

(world) will remain blind in the hereafter as well. (Bani Israel-72)
If the seeker becomes unconscious of himself during the
muraqbah and drowns in the state of annihilation, and if on
coming out of the state of muraqbah he forgets everything that
he had seen during the muraqbah in a moment, then it shows that
whatever he saw was from Divinity. That seeker is at the level of
a crazy lover who is unconscious of himself and his state is like
that of a moth in fire. This is the middle level of muraqbah, as
the seeker has not yet been blessed with union of Allah. He is
imperfect yet and detached to the Reality, that is why he is
perplexed. Real muraqbah is that in which the seeker dives in the
ocean of Divinity like an expert diver and brings out pearls (of
marifat). The seeker who absorbs in muraqbah in this way, his
sleep is like awakening and his ecstasy is like vigilance. It is in
his power to acquire such a state of absorption in the muraqbah
in which he enters the assembly of special and distinguished
Prophets and Saints and drowns in the secret of Divine Oneness.
In a single muraqbah he spiritually spends twelve or forty years
in the state of Divine presence. When he comes out of the
muraqbah he comes to know that he has actually spent only a
moment (according to the earth's time) in that state. It is essential
for such a seeker to offer all the obligatory prayers like salat and
fasts in time in respect of shariah of Prophet Mohammad. When
the muraqbah is perfected, it is like an arrow which reaches it‟s
target in no time.
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Meaning: If someone is guided by his passion, he can reach his

destination in just half a step even if it is thousand years away.
There are four kinds of observations in the muraqbah. The
person who is outwardly busy in worships, zikr and meditation
but inwardly fosters the love of world in his heart, whatever he
observes in his muraqbah is related to this physical world and is
fake and transitory like it. The seeker of Allah who is inwardly
as well as outwardly engrossed in the Ishq and intense love of Allah
and His zikr and meditation, whatever he observes esoterically as
well as exoterically is just the observation of Divinity. Third
kind of observation is of that person who remains in the fear of
Allah outwardly and inwardly, whatever he sees in the muraqbah
is related with the paradise. Fourth kind is the observation of the
person who does not offer salat and is engrossed in worldly
pleasures outwardly and inwardly, whatever he sees is just a
satanic deceit and an illusion created by his cruel nafs which has
to decline. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Everything returns to its origin.

The seeker who is always engrossed in the Divine deeds with
the verification of his heart, both the worlds are his slave.
However the seeker of Allah has only Allah, neither he keeps
slaves nor worries. Muraqbah is like the sun. When the sun rises,
everything from the east to west and from one corner of the
world to the other becomes bright. Similarly, when a seeker
performs the real muraqbah, every corner of the world, rather
whatever is included in the six dimensions is exposed upon him,
but the true meditators see nothing but the Divine Essence. For
them, the eyes are meant to see only the Beloved and nothing
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else. When the true practitioners of muraqbah get engrossed in

the zikr of Allah, their zikr and muraqbah let them spiritually
meet the Prophets and Saints. The zikr which does not drown a
person in meeting with the One Divine Essence, that zikr is not
real. It is just for the sake of gaining riches of the world and is
only a ritual.
There is a kind of muraqbah which is called “Muraqbah of
Shaikh” in which the spiritual form of Shaikh comes and takes
the seeker to the holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad and lets
him be blessed with the accomplishment of his objective. The
seeker who does not experience this state in muraqbah has not
reached the level of Fana Fi Shaikh. When a true seeker beholds
Ism-e-Allah in his muraqbah, the Ism-e-Allah takes him to the
Divine Essence. He observes the Essence within himself and
drowns in the muraqbah in such a way that he neither remembers
zikr, meditation or even breathing nor pleasure, sorrow, hunger
and the desires of nafs, neither he remembers the Essence or His
closeness and farness nor the destiny, greed or wishes. So, what
does he remember and where has he reached? He only remembers
love and passion. When a lover approaches this stage, all his
objectives are achieved, then the zikr and meditation are forbidden
for him and whatever he observes is special.
If a seeker sees the infidels in his dream or muraqbah, it shows
that either his nafs has been aroused or he has not even reached
the first stage of kalma (No one is worthy of worship) or it
is the Satan who shows him the gathering of infidels daily so that
he becomes disappointed and leaves the way of Allah. That
seeker should recite darood sharif142 and la-haul143 before sleeping
or performing the muraqbah so that the satanic dangers and
illusions may end and his inward is enlightened.
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Blessings and salutations upon the Prophet.
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A prayer for safety from the Satan
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There are seven levels of muraqbah, first is the muraqbah of

ignorant which is like wandering in a jungle, second is the
muraqbah of the people of wrong innovations and music which
is like the deceit of Antichrist (Dajjal). Third is the muraqbah of
zikr in which the seeker observes the stages of zikr and experiences
spiritual states. Fourth is the muraqbah of people of meditation
and reflection who are the men of spiritual states. The Holy
Prophet said about such muraqbah:
Meaning: Meditation for a moment is better than the worship of

both the worlds.
Fifth is the perfect muraqbah of the Arif Billah in which he
gains the knowledge of Allah. Sixth is the accomplished muraqbah
of the perfect knower of Allah in which he beholds the sacred
souls. Seventh is the muraqbah of everlasting Faqr about which
the Holy Prophet said: meaning: “When Faqr is
accomplished that is Allah.” It is the muraqbah of the seeker who
has reached the level of Fana Fillah and is drowned in the Divine
Oneness being One with the Essence. The muraqbah of Faqr is
the best muraqbah as compared to the muraqbah of all the
Prophets because Prophet Mohammad is the pride of all the
Prophets and the pride of Prophet Mohammad is Faqr, as he said
meaning: “Faqr is my pride and Faqr is from
me.”
The tongue and words of Fana Fillah Faqeer is like the tongue
and words of Allah. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The tongue of Faqeers is the sword of Rehman.

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The ink which was left on the tip of the Divine Pen after
writing the destinies was spread over the tongue of the Faqeers.
Meaning: Faqr is the darkness of face in both the worlds144.

The effects of the ink that was spread over the tongue of
Faqeers became iluminous on their foreheads which made both
the worlds dark (i.e. valueless) in their view. The Faqeers are
true men, they are neither Allah nor other than Allah. The Holy
Prophet said:

out of it.
The Satan is not able to acquire a few forms i.e. form of Allah,
form of the Holy Prophet, form of sun, moon, Madina, the tomb
of the Holy Prophet, Kaaba and the Holy Quran because all these
are the guides towards righteousness and it is impossible for Satan
to be a righteous guide. Satan and its ways are false and can
never guide towards the Truth.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! I am bodyless because I have taken my soul

to the Divinity and left the cover here.
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Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani interprets this Hadith in his book Sir’r-ul-
Asrar as “Faqeer does not take any colour except the Noor of Allah‟s Face (just as black
colour does not take any other colour). Blackness of Faqr is like the mole on Beloved‟s
Face which enhances its beauty.” Hazrat Sultan Bahoo also explains this Hadith in his
other book Sultan-ul-Waham as: “Just as attraction of a beautiful face is incomplete
without dark hair and a black mole, similarly the Beauty of Divine Face is enhanced by
Faqr.” (Sultan-ul-Waham, English translation-page 130)
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If a seeker sees in muraqbah or dream that he is calling Azan,145

conducting the salat, reciting the Holy Quran, doing zikr of Allah,
performing ablution, taking bath or entering the holy assembly of
Prophet Mohammad, it shows that his nafs, soul and heart have
become one by the guidance and Grace of Allah.
Meaning: Hoo took Bahoo with Him such that “Ba” was deleted
from Bahoo (only Hoo was left in him). Whoever beholds Hoo in
Bahoo, never dies.
Meaning: If someone claims to be a dervish but does not become

disgusted of the world and worldly pleasures, then understand
that he is a reprobate. At last he will be disgraced and no one
will remember him after death.
The Murshid should open the doors of muraqbah upon the
seeker of Allah through mystic struggle, this struggle is not of
asceticism but of tasawur and meditation. It is upto him to indulge
the seeker in the struggle of contemplation for forty retreats, twenty
retreats, ten retreats, five retreats, two retreats or one retreat. A
retreat may be for twenty days or ten days or five days or two
days or one day. However, if the Murshid wishes, he may take
the seeker to the destination in just a small period between dawn
to sun rise by his kindness. He lets the seeker sit before him and
makes him cover all the waystation by the power and marvel of
his spiritual attention, then he lets him enter the holy assembly of
Prophet Mohammad. If the seeker is sincere and truthful, he
remains in this assembly eternally but if he loses his sincerity
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and truthfulness, he is ousted from this assembly and his spiritual

journey is stopped. We seek refuge of Allah from this. If the
Murshid is not perfect, the belief of seeker in him is useless.
Belief is gained through enlightened insight and is not meant for
the Murshid who is like a blind folded ox which revolves around
the oil presser. The word Murshid has four letters
(according to Arabic alphabets). Its first letter (M) refers to
the fact that Murshid is a man of Allah, he is detached from
himself and a servant of Prophet Mohammad and all the Sufis.
By its second letter (R), it is meant that he rejects everything
other than Allah and accepts only the Divine Oneness. The third
letter (Sh) means that his alive heart is filled with shauq
(passion) for the Ishq of Allah, he is an Arif Billah blessed with
Divine Unity. The fourth letter (D) of the word Murshid refers
to the fact that he is blessed with the “Daimi” (eternal) Divine
presence and is ever drowned in the state of Fana Fillah. The
word Talib (the seeker of Allah) also has four letters
. Its first letter (T) means that the seeker should give
“Talaq” (Divorce) to all the relations except his relation with
Allah. The second letter (A) means that he has to reach the
station of “Alwahiyat” (Divinity) and Lordliness. Only Allah,
everything other than Allah is lust. The third letter (L) refers
to the fact that he must become “Laiq” (eligible) to enter the
Divine court by separating from the creation. Fourth letter
(B) means that he must leave “Badi” i.e. the bad habits and evil
practices and should remain obedient from morning till evening
and from evening till morning, as the obedient and respectful
ones achieve the objective. He must seek Allah purely and
discard everything from his heart except Allah. He should be
sincere to his Murshid like water is to the stream. If the Murshid
and the seeker of Allah do not have these qualities, they are not
the real Murshid and seeker, they are the slave of their desires.
The perfect and accomplished Murshid is the one who recognizes
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(the capabilities and qualities of) the seeker of Allah in just a

single glance like a touchstone checks the gold, like a goldsmith
tests the gold, like a rider knows his horse, like the sunlight tests
the ruby or like a scholar knows the knowledge of grammar. The
perfect Murshid is like Kaaba, only by entering it the good and
evil appear as they are. Similarly, the piety of a pious person
becomes obvious by a single glance of perfect Murshid and he is
accepted in the court of Allah, likewise evil of an evil person also
becomes evident and he is rejected by Allah. The proficient
jeweler never makes a mistake in identifying the pure gold. If one
coin amongst thousand coins is pure gold and all others are
impure, he will pick up only the pure one and leave the others.
Unless the gold is brought to the shop of goldsmith and burnt in
fire, its purity cannot be verified by anyone. Murshid is the master
of identification and verification, he can identify who is the
seeker of Divine attributes and who is the seeker of Divine
Essence. Just as a scholar does not leave any mistake in his book
and prepares a perfectly corrected script, similarly a Faqeer does
not leave anything other than Allah in the heart of the seeker and
starts the zikr of Allah in it after making it perfect, hence the
seeker becomes a man of glorification.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! The people who are veiled from the Reality
sit in seclusion for extra devotions. Single glance of a Murshid is
better than the forty days seclusion held forty times, as it can
show the exact Reality.
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Meaning: O’ Bahoo! If the seeker of Allah wants to achieve his

objectives, then nothing is better for him than to take guidance
from a perfect Murshid.
Meaning: Such obedience of the creation is not right which is

based on disobedience to the Creator. One must adopt what is
right and leave what is wrong.
Beware! Always follow the shariah and keep away from the
wrong innovations. The seeker of Allah must be sincere and
truthful. Allah says:
Meaning; Verily, Allah is the only One to be worshipped. (An-

Nisa-171)
Insincere seeker is the one who has love of the world in his
heart. Allah says: meaning: (The Christians and Jews
say) “God is one of the three Gods”146. Among the three Gods,
first is the world (i.e. wishes and pleasures of world) which is
dearer to the worldly people than Allah, second is their son (i.e.
worldly relations) whom Prophet Abraham had to sacrifice and
third is Allah whom they neither know nor recognize. They are
absolutely foolish and stupid as they do not understand the fact
that at last they have to return to Allah. Allah is always with His
slaves, it is the people who are away and depraved from Allah.
We seek refuge of Allah from this.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Just remove the veil between you and Allah
and behold Him, do not depend on the promise of vision of Allah
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on the doomsday. Dear friend you must understand the secret

behind Prophet Moses‟ request (O Lord! I want to behold
You) and Allah‟s reply (You cannot).
Meaning: First of all the Holy Prophet had the honour of beholding
Allah and then all the other Prophets and Saints were blessed
with His vision.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! I do not tell anyone what I see and know, as

it is a secret. No one is capable to hold this secret except the one
who is ready to sacrifice his life to get this secret.
Muraqbah leads to Divine presence and the practitioners of
real muraqbah are forgiven by Allah. The Holy Prophet taught
muraqbah to Hazrat Ali in this way:
Meaning: O’ Ali! Close your eyes and listen your heart reciting
.
When the practitioner of muraqbah becomes proficient in it, he
does not need to close his eyes. He is like an expert diver who
dives in the water and sees water everywhere around him.
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Meaning: If a seeker becomes One with Allah by drowning in

the Divine Oneness, his own self does not remain between him
and Allah and he gains perfect unity with Him.
Meaning: Faqr is not an inheritance which can be transferred to

seven generations. Its reality cannot be understood by conversation.
Faqr is like a munificent wave of ocean which is endowed
upon the Faqeers by the Holy Lord. The Faqeers anxiously wait
for this wave to come from Allah and bless them.
Meaning: I remember the advice of my spiritual guide that

everything except the remembrance of Allah is a total waste.
Meaning: Wealth was granted to the greedy dogs and luxuries to

the donkeys. We are saved from these things, so we watch their
spectacle sitting peacefully.
Worldly wealth is undesirable, whether it is earned lawfully or
unlawfully because there is accountability for the lawful earnings
and punishment for the unlawful earnings. Those who would
have earned the worldly wealth lawfully would be ordered to
stand on the Sirat bridge and give the explanation where they
had spent their earnings. When a person gets hold of the worldly
wealth and fosters its love, the Satan says, “Now he has become
my slave because worldly wealth is my property”. There are
three signs of worldly people, first is their greed which is like the
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hell fire, second is that they gather wealth which is like fuel of
that fire. They are so unfortunate that they do not even spend it
on themselves and is used by others after their death or is
wasted. Their third sign is that after death, they regret that why
did they gather such wealth which has become their enemy and
eating their flesh in the grave turning into snakes and scorpions.
We seek refuge of Allah from this. Hence, it is evident that the
worldly people are the men of Satan, and there is no match
between the men of Satan and the men of zikr of Allah. World is
a lie and the zikr is truth. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: World is a deceit and cannot be gained without deceit.

The seekers blessed with Divine presence must keep away
from the world. When you have declared your faith as
i.e. “There is no God but Allah” then how can you request or ask
for anything from anyone else and become a polytheist by doing
so. We seek refuge of Allah from this. Heaven is forbidden upon
the worldly people, world is forbidden upon the people of heaven,
while world and heaven both are forbidden upon the people of
Divine vision. The more a person loves the world, the more he
goes away from Allah. The world is the major veil between Allah
and man. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The root cause of all evils is the world and it is the veil
between Allah and His slave.
Whoever loves the world, the world involves him in itself and
traps him in troubles in such a way that he never gets rid of the
worldliness. That is why, the friends and men of Allah do not
accept it.
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Meaning: Why the colour of gold is yellow? Because it becomes

pale in front of the people of courage.
The strong seeker of Allah is the one who gets rid of the world
and leaves the hereafter. He never hesitates to sacrifice his every
possession for Allah whether wealth, progeny, home or life. The
reciter of zikr by heart is the one whose heart is pure of the
desires of everything except Allah, otherwise he is like a dog.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! What can one do for the sake of Allah! Life
is not dearer than Him, so I present my life to Him.
There are four points of zikr in the body of a person i.e. tongue,
heart, soul and the sir‟r. The zikr of every point has a particular
form. During the muraqbah all the four forms meet him and
become his obedient. It is as if the four levels of nafs come under
his command. The body of a man is made of four elements i.e.
air, water, soil and fire, each one has different form. From each
form of the four elements of the body of Faqeers, seventy
thousand new forms are created which meet him inwardly and
outwardly. Faqr needs nothing except Allah but everything needs
it. Two lac and eighty thousand forms appear from the existence
of the Faqeer and accompany him outwardly. Then all these
forms reach the highest levels of Faqr and become the reciters of
zikr of Allah and possessors of the Divine Oneness. The Holy
Prophet said:
Meaning: Safety is in Oneness while duality is full of troubles.

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When a Faqeer reaches this level, he becomes alone. He never

leaves any of his salat and while offering salat, he becomes the
Imam and his hidden forms become the follower, and then offer
salat according to Sunnah in a congregation. So he himself is the
leader as well as the follower.
Meaning: Bahoo himself is the Imam as well as the follower and

says salat within himself. Only such a Faqr becomes intimate
with the Divine Reality.
Although the Faqeer reaches the highest level of closeness with
Allah but he never does anything against shariah. Outwardly he
shows himself to be a common person but inwardly he is the
most special. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The real person is hidden behind the dress.

Out of the four elements, the soil depicts humans, water depicts
angels, air depicts the martyrs and fire depicts the jinns. Muraqbah
means to be the same outwardly and inwardly. Difference
between outward and inward is hypocrisy. The worldly people
have nothing to do with muraqbah. Many kings renounced their
kingdom and royal family to get the blessings of Faqr and real
muraqbah. They acquired poverty, shunned all the relations and
let their nafs be ruined in the way of Divine Oneness but never
turned away from their Ishq and passion of love for Allah. Hence
they earned the best hereafter life. They entrusted themselves to
Allah, apparently they died but never did they die. The true men
of Allah are the eternal pilgrims who have no veil between them
and Allah. Some Saints remain in the state of pilgrimage wearing
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the ahram147 for ten years, some for forty years and some for the
whole life, they remain engrossed in muraqbah day and night.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! I face towards Kaaba and Kaaba faces towards

me because my inward is the home of Allah just as Kaaba is the
home of Allah. So, my heart and soul have become the living
Kaaba.
Wearing ahram means one is not allowed to annoy others, one‟s
heart must be awake and one must be vigil. It is like wearing the
shroud i.e. to reach the level of “death before dying”.
Meaning: Come and give your life happily for the love of your
Beloved. This is what Dervishes do every moment.
Meaning: A Faqeer Dervish has seventy souls and each soul has
got thousands of eternal lives.
Meaning: If you do not know the way of Ishq of Dervishes, why

don‟t you learn it from a true Dervish.
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The pilgrimage robe. After wearing the pilgrimage robe many things are forbidden
upon a Muslim.
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Meaning: Whatever Bahoo says about the grandeur of Faqr is not

boasting. We have no fear because Allah is always there to help
us.
Meaning: You must seek the inward knowledge and wisdom.

Only one word (Ism-e-Allah Zaat ) will grant you the whole
knowledge.
Meaning: How can one have the vision of Allah unless one‟s
heart is awake. Real prostration is possible only while having the
vision of Allah, prostrating before the wall blindly cannot be
considered real prostration.
True Faqeer is the one whose heart contains secrets of both the
worlds.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! I always keep check upon myself, even when

I have reached the level of Fana Fillah and have been blessed
with eternal company of the Beloved.
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Meaning: The stations of pre-existence and eternity ever remain

before my eyes, so I view everything. I behold the Divine Essence
with my eyes while my forehead is prostrating before Him.
Meaning: If you want to reach the level where your eyes become
His eyes and your words become His words then behead your
nafs.
One must reach the ultimate level of Faqr.
Meaning: The seeker who has become One with the Divine Entity,
does not need to acquire marifat anymore. If an Arif feels proud
upon his level of marifat, it means he is imperfect yet.
Marifat is the middle level of the spiritual journey, the “Lamakan”
which is the station beyond all stations is far ahead of it.
Meaning: You carry two gods within yourself other than Allah
(i.e. the nafs and Satan whom you obey). How can you reach the
One God who has no partners.
Meaning: No one knows the secret of Divine lovers except

Allah. When I killed the two gods present within myself, I found
the One God.
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Meaning: One who makes two or three partners with the One
God, is accursed and rejected. I separated from the two gods and
found the One Merciful Lord.
Satanic disturbances are created during solitude.
Meaning: The Beloved is within yourself why do you adopt

solitude! Refrain from solitude thousand times and behold the
Beloved in front of you.
Closeness, union and presence, all are veils.
Meaning: Closeness means one is oblivious of the Divine Reality

and presence means one is away from Him. Bahoo has become
exactly the Noor of Allah by (annihilating in) His Noor.
Solitude is a great deception.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Do you know what is solitude? It is a brigand.

It closed the way of spiritual journey for thousands of people.
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Meaning: If you find a guide who makes you drink the wine of
Divine love, you will become immortal while others will remain
mortal.
Meaning: O’ heart! Be happy and delightfully drink the goblet of

wine which the Beloved has granted you eagerly.
Listen! The knowledge is enhanced by acting upon it, similarly
a Faqeer can find Divine union only through drowning in the
muraqbah. Knowledge increases the intelligence and intelligence
is a source of two things i.e. earning livelihood and finding the
solution of problems by studying books. While muraqbah is a
source of experiencing death and death leads to the levels of
Saints. A Faqeer finds death in life and life in death. This is the
rank of man of Divine Essence who has acquired the knowledge
of Divine attributes through the muraqbah of Divine Essence. A
Faqeer experiences two states during muraqbah; if he is annihilated
in Allah and drowned in Divine union then he feels delighted
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and passionate and is blessed with the state of where
no one can come between him and Allah. If he is separated from
Allah, he is confused and lost. While experiencing the state of
absorption nothing seems good. This is the state of qabz149 and
busst150 in which the seeker is neither permanently united nor
separated. Allah says:
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Referring to the Hadith of the Holy Prophet:
meaning: There are times of my such closeness with Allah when neither any Prophet nor
angel can come between us.
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Qabz is the spiritual state of contraction in which the heart is firmly gripped by the
fear of Allah. It results due to the Divine disclosure of Jalal (Allah’s Majesty and Wrath).
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Busst is the involuntary state of expansion, which engulfs the heart with ineffable joy.
It results from the Divine disclosure of Jamal (Allah’s Compassion and Beauty).
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Meaning: And Allah alone contracts and expands and towards

Him you will be returned. (Al-Baqarah-245)
Meaning: Do not be an infidel or a polytheist, you must adopt

the right way. The Faqeer never goes against the shariah of the
Holy Prophet.
People become infidel or polytheist only due to the excess of
worldly wealth, as, an indigent never claimed to be a God.
Whenever someone claimed to be God, it was a worldly rich
person.
Meaning: Your aim is to achieve worldliness as it is your god but

for the lovers of Allah world is accursed.
Meaning: World‟s existence is just for a moment and in that

moment we have to obey Allah.
Meaning: The world is just like a cultivation land, spend in the

way of Allah whatever it yields.
Meaning: One who saves even a penny, thousands of veils come

between him and Allah and he falls into hundreds of sins.
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Faqeers are of four kinds; (a) The Faqeer who is man of

awareness (b) The Faqeer who is man of sight (c) The Faqeer
who is man of the right path (d) The Faqeer who is man of
Divine company. One must check whose company one keeps.
Meaning: Among you were some who desired gains of this

world and some sought reward in the hereafter. (Aal-e-Imran-152)
Real Faqeer is the one who rejects the world as well as the
hereafter. Listen O’ life sacrificing lover consumed by the fire of
love! Be steadfast and strong in the way of Faqr Fana Fillah.
Renounce the world as well as the hereafter and be empty handed
so that the Faqeer who is the religious guide, holds your hand
and takes you to the highest level of faith i.e. Haq-ul-Yaqeen.
The Qadri way is dominant over time and space. There are two
off-shoots of Qadri way, the Zahidi Qadri and Sarwari Qadri.
What is the difference between the two? Sarwari Qadri is the
mystic way that is conferred upon me by the Holy Prophet. He
took my bayat and commanded me to guide the men of Allah
with spiritual courage. After blessing me with inward persuasion,
he held my hand and entrusted me to Pir Dastageer151 Shah
Mohiyyuddin Jilani. He also blessed me and ordered to give
spiritual persuasion to people. By his grace, every seeker whom I
guided thereafter, physically or spiritually, through the medium
of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Ism-e-Mohammad, was bestowed with
the presence of holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad without
any struggle or zikr. Then, there remained no veil between Allah
and that seeker and he observed Ism-e-Allah Zaat wherever he
looked. The Sarwari Qadri way is very beneficent and courageous.
In the other mystic ways, some seekers were burnt to death by
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Appellation of Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, meaning “One who holds
the hand and patronizes”.
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the blaze of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, some could not bear the burden of
Ism-e-Allah Zaat and retreated while some apostatized and were
cursed.
Meaning: The physical body of Adam is like a flask and his soul
is like the wine in it. The body is like a flute and soul is like its
tune.
Meaning: Do you know the reality of the earthen imperfect body

of humans? It is a chandelier without light while the soul is its light.
Some Saints remain stagnant at their spiritual state of presence
of the holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad but I am progressing
day by day and my levels are raised every moment. By the will
of Allah, it will remain so till eternity as it is the eternal Divine
command. I did not get formal academic education like Prophet
Mohammad. We had the Divine knowledge. The Divine experiences
revealed such inspirational knowledge upon me inwardly and
outwardly that needs a number of books to be expressed. However,
our elders advise that one should be brief and comprehensive in
writing. The true seeker and follower of Prophet Mohammad is
the one whose all inward veils are removed by the Holy Prophet
and he has opened the doors of Faqr upon him and raised him to
the level of Hazrat Awais Qarni152. Such a seeker is entitled as
“Awais” also because he remains busy in the Divine deeds
physically as well as spiritually following the Holy Prophet
honestly and sincerely.
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An ardent lover of the Holy Prophet who lived in his era but could not meet him.
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The Zahidi Qadri way is that in which the seeker of Allah has
to perform excessive hard mystic exercises. After twelve or
thirty years of asceticism he is blessed with the presence before
Pir Dastageer Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, who takes him to the
court of Holy Prophet and lets him be honoured and elevated.
This is the Zahidi Qadri way. The level of a Qadri beginner is
equal to the proficient follower of any other mystic way. A Qadri
proficient holds the honourable rank of beloved of Prophet
Mohammad i.e. Fana Fillah Baqa Billah. The person who keeps
hostility against Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani or his devotees and
followers of his Qadri way, his ranks are confiscated and he is
regressed to the level of Satan. We seek refuge of Allah from
this. Whoever doubts it, turns infidel. We seek refuge of Allah
from this also. Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani is the vicegerent and
heir of the Holy Prophet. The key to both the worlds is in his
custody as he is the beloved of Allah. One who does not believe
this, belongs to the satanic group. He is rejected by Faqr and is
depraved and disgraced in both the worlds.
The ultimate limit of the proficients of muraqbah is the deepest
ocean. Which is the deepest ocean? It is the ocean of Divine
Oneness which is the centre of attention of the Holy Prophet.
The seeker who dives in that deepest ocean by the command of
Allah and the Holy Prophet, renounces the world and becomes a
Fana Fillah Faqeer. That deepest ocean is in fact the ocean of
Faqr. Faqr is independent of everything, that is why when one
dives in its deepest ocean, it purifies one from everything other
than Allah. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. Then
there remains no falsehood in the existence of the seeker and
only the Truth dominates him.
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Real Faqeer is the one who is engrossed in remembrance and

meditation about seven things. First is the remembrance and
meditation about death which awakes him from deep slumber.
Second is the remembrance and meditation about the Munkar
and Nakeer which detaches him from everyone other than Allah
and attaches him with Allah. Third is the remembrance and
meditation about the grave whose fear makes him punish his
infidel nafs harshly so that it becomes true Muslim. Fourth is the
remembrance and meditation about the record of his deeds that
would be checked on the doomsday. To keep it right, he prevents
his tongue from false talk. Fifth is the remembrance and meditation
about the requital on the day of resurrection when everyone
would be worrying for himself only. Due to the fear of that day
he remains busy in the good deeds for Allah. Sixth is the
remembrance and meditation about crossing the Sirat bridge. If
one crosses the bridge of world safely keeping his faith intact by
preventing oneself from the love of world, it becomes easier for
him to cross the Sirat bridge in hereafter. Seventh is the
remembrance and meditation about seeking Allah which makes
him forget the pleasures of the paradise and fear of the hell. Then
he drowns in the meditation of Fana Fillah Faqr in such a way
that he forgets all the seven remembrances and meditations. Only
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There is nothing in the universe but Hoo.
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Qudsi Hadith meaning “O’ Mohammad! You are Me and I am you.”
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Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. The Faqeer who is not
aware of these seven remembrances and meditations is not
eligible to be a Faqeer. When the day rises, a Faqeer considers it
the day of resurrection and thinks that every creation of eighteen
thousand worlds is writing the record of his good and bad deeds.
He himself holds his nafs accountable for its deeds and views
Allah as his judge. When it is night, he imagines it as his grave
where he is lying alone and awake. He remains conscious day
and night inwardly as well as outwardly.
CHAPTER VII
THE SECRET AND LOUD ZIKR OF ALLAH
AND KALMA TAYYAB BY TONGUE,
HEART, SOUL AND SIR‟R
The Holy Prophet remarked about the marvels of zikr in the

following words:
Meaning: The difference between the one who does the zikr of
Allah and the one who does not, is the same as the difference
between alive and dead.
Meaning: Certainly! The angels search for the people who do zikr
of Allah. When they find a community doing the zikr of Allah,
they call one another towards that community telling them that
they have found whom they were searching. Then all of them
cover that community with their wings till the sky of this world.
Meaning: Hazrat Muaz said while reporting the last words of the
Holy Prophet, “I asked the Prophet which is the favourite act of
Allah?” He replied, “It is that when you die, you are doing the
zikr of Allah”. It is also reported that Hazrat Muaz requested the
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Holy Prophet to give him a piece of advice. The Holy Prophet

said, “Adopt piety as much as you can and do the zikr of Allah
near every stone and tree (i.e. everywhere and every moment).”
Meaning: The Holy Prophet said to his sacred Companions, “Let

me tell you the act which is the most favourite and the most
elevated act near Allah and the best of all deeds, even better than
spending gold and silver in the way of Allah or fighting for the
religious cause and killing the enemies of Allah or being killed
by them?” The Companions replied, “Why not O’ Prophet of
Allah! Do tell us.” He exclaimed, “It is the zikr of Allah”.
Meaning: The Holy Prophet declared that no sadaqah155 is better

than doing the zikr of Allah.
Zikr should be like phoenix. Phoenix is a bird which collects
woods and joins them in the form of a fort. When the fort of
woods is ready, it sits in that fort and engrosses itself in the zikr
of Allah invoking “Hoo” repeatedly. When it starts the zikr and
inhales with the invocation of “Hoo”, it‟s being feels extreme heat
of zikr of Hoo, then such a fire is ablazed in its body that is
caught by the woods and the bird is burnt to ashes alongwith the
fort of words. Afterwards, it rains upon the ashes and an egg is
produced from the ash. That egg hatches and a baby phoenix is
born. When the baby phoenix grows up to the age of it‟s father,
it repeats the act of it‟s father and burns to ashes like it. This
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Giving anything in any form in the way of Allah.
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process goes on and on till eternity. Similarly, the Faqeer who

continuously does the zikr of Allah experiences the state of
“death before dying” every moment. What is Faqr? Faqr means
to vacant your house and spend your every possession in the way
of Allah like the Holy Prophet did. It is to renounce the world
completely so much so that there remains no penny to buy oil for
lamp or even a sheet to spread on floor. Faqeer is the one who
gives in the way of Allah whatever Allah gives him directly or
through other sources.
Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “No act of a person is greater

than the zikr of Allah which could save him from the wrath of
Allah”. The sacred Companions asked, “Not even fighting in the
way of Allah?” He replied, “No! Even if you are cut into pieces
by the sword while fighting for Allah.”
Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Allah Almighty says that on

the doomsday you will recognize the people of graciousness”. He
was asked, “Who are the people of graciousness.” He replied,
“People who get together in the mosques for the zikr of Allah”.
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Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “If a person spends a room full
of money in the way of Allah, even then the person who does
zikr of Allah is better than him.”
Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “There are two chambers in

the heart of the human beings, one is occupied by an angel and
other by the Satan. When a person does zikr of Allah, the Satan
runs away and when he becomes oblivious of the zikr, the Satan
surrounds him and creates delusions in his heart.
Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “When you pass through the
gardens of paradise, have something from there to eat”. The sacred
Companions said, “Sure O’ Prophet of Allah! But what do you
mean by the gardens of paradise?” He replied, “The gatherings of
zikr”.
Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “When a group of people leave

a gathering without remembering Allah, it is like they had been
sitting near a carrion donkey. They will deeply regret this act on
the doomsday.”
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Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “The person amongst you who
left a gathering without doing the zikr of Allah would be left with
nothing but embarrassment.”
Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “When a person takes rest (i.e.
he is free from all the jobs) but does not do the zikr of Allah, he
is left with nothing but embarrassment.
Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “The people of paradise will

not have any regret except for the time they had spent without
the zikr of Allah.”
Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Do the zikr of Allah so

excessively that people may consider you crazy.”
Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Certainly a mountain calls

another mountain by its name and asks it if anyone has passed
across it doing the zikr of Allah. If it answers in yes, that
mountain congratulates it.”
Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Those who occupied themselves

in the zikr of Allah on earth, will have the most elevated place in
paradise.”
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Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “The people who remain

engrossed in the zikr of Allah, will enter the paradise smilingly.”
Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: I am with My slave when he remembers Me by moving

his lips (i.e. by doing the zikr of Allah with tongue).
Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: I am as My slave perceives Me. I am with him when

he remembers Me (through My zikr). When he remembers Me
secretly within himself I also remember him secretly. And when
he remembers Me in a gathering I also remember him in a better
gathering.
Meaning: It is reported by Hazrat Abu Zar Ghaffari that the Holy

Prophet said, “Allah says that when a person performs a good
deed, I reward him equal to ten good deeds, rather more than that.
And when a person commits a sin, he is punished accordingly (for
his sin) or is forgiven by Me. If a person covers a span to come
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towards Me, I go a yard near him and if he covers a yard to come

to Me I go two yards near him. If he walks towards Me, I run
towards him. When a person meets Me in any corner of the earth
after purifying himself of polytheism and sins, I meet him with
forgiveness and beneficence.”
Listen! If a person spends his whole life in keeping fasts,
offering salat, performing hajj or reciting the holy Quran day and
night, as meaning: “Reciting Quran is a great
worship,” but do not recite kalma tayyab by tongue, he will not
be considered a Muslim and none of his worship would be accepted
in the court of Allah, as worship of an infidel is just a deception.
Meaning: The greatest zikr is the zikr of

(No one is worthy of worship but Allah, Mohammad is His
Messenger).
Worship requires the zikr, however the men of zikr and men of
Faqr do not require anything. One whose heart does not verify
what he recites, cannot be considered a true reciter. God forbid if
he is called a Muslim or a Momin. The source of fear of Allah,
purgation of innerself and verification of heart is the zikr of
Meaning: There is a burnisher for everything and the burnisher

of heart is the zikr of Allah.
Meaning: The sign of love of Allah is doing His zikr and the sign
of hostility against Allah is leaving His zikr.
Allah says:
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Meaning: All have embraced faith in Allah, His angels, His Books
and His Messengers. (They also say,) “We do not discriminate
between any of His Messengers (in believing).” (Al-Baqarah-285)
One must have fear of Allah. Allah says:
Meaning: And (We have sent many) Messengers whose annals

We have narrated to you earlier, and We sent (a number of)
those Messengers whose details We have not (yet) related to
you. (An-Nisa-164)
Meaning: And Allah spoke to Moses directly. (An-Nisa-164)

Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: When you see that My slave is not doing My zikr,

understand that I have put a veil before him.
Meaning: The most distinguished slaves near Allah are those

who do His zikr.
Meaning: The zikr of Allah is the sign of true faith, it gives

salvation from hypocrisy and saves from Satan.
Meaning: The greatest of all the zikrs is the zikr of Allah.

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Meaning: Verily, there are ten benefits of loud zikr; (1)

Sanctification of heart (2) Salvation from oblivion (3) Physical
health (4) Power to fight against the enemies of Allah (5)
Expression of faith (6) Salvation from satanic attacks (7) Salvation
from the dangers of nafs (8) Attention towards Allah (9) Getting
rid of everything other than Allah (10) Removal of veils between
man and Allah.
Faqeer Bahoo exclaims what is zikr, what is gained from zikr
and what is the level of a true zakir156? Zikr means purification.
Just as wealth is purified and made lawful by paying zakat,
similarly being of a person is purified through zikr. It cleanses
the person like soap cleans the cloth. It obliterates all the sins of
a person like fire burns the woods. It enlivens and adorns the
faith of a person like rain revitalizes the withered grass. The zikr
of Allah for a person is like fruit for the tree, light for the
darkness, fragrance for the flower and salt for food. Just as
saying Takbeer ( Allah-o-Akbar meaning: Allah is the
greatest) while slaughtering an animal makes it lawful (for
eating) similarly the zikr of Allah makes a person acceptable (in
the court of Allah). Before offering salat, the name of Allah is
taken, so in salat also the zikr of Allah is the foremost. Takbeer-e-
Tehreema157 is also the zikr of Allah and the whole salat which is
offered after Takbeer-e-Tehreema is also a form of the zikr of
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One who does zikr
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The Takbeer i.e. “Allah-o-Akbar” by saying which the salat starts.
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Meaning: The greatest zikr is .

The recitation of Quran also starts with the zikr of Allah i.e.
meaning: “By the name of Allah the most
Beneficent, the most Merciful”. “ ” Bismillah i.e. “By the
name of Allah” is also the zikr of Ism-e-Allah. The first verse of
the Quran which was revealed upon the Holy Prophet was also
about the zikr and name of Allah, it was:
Meaning: Read by the name of your Holy Lord who has created.
(Al-Alaq-1)
At the time of death also, it is essential to invoke Allah by

saying or Ism-e-Allah or the kalma-e-
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shahadat . All these are the zikr of Allah. In grave too, the
angels would ask about the name of Allah that is also the zikr of
Allah. If Ism-e-Allah will be inscribed at the top of the record of
deeds of a person, it will be given in his right hand on the
doomsday. When his good and bad deeds will be weighed on the
balance, the side containing zikr of Ism-e-Allah as his good deed
will be heavier. If a person will invoke Ism-e-Allah while crossing
the Sirat bridge, hell will be afraid of him and he will pass the
bridge safely. If he will take the name of Allah at the door of
heaven, it would be opened for him immediately. If one invokes
the name of Allah while having His vision, he is conferred with
the everlasting ultimate theophany which makes him ecstatic
forever. Anyone who makes fun of Ism-e-Allah or keeps hostility
against it is verily a reprobate. He is either an infidel or a hypocrite
or a sinner. In the era of Holy Prophet, all these three groups i.e.
infidels, hypocrites and sinners were present, now whoever
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Muslim creed in form of testimony
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denies the zikr of Allah belongs to them. Verily, zikr is the

foundation of Islam and strength of the religion. Whenever the Holy
Prophet fought a war against infidels, he and his Companions
started the war by raising the slogan of name of Allah. The
inward war against nafs is also fought by the zikr of name of
Allah .
Meaning: Every hair of the body of a true zakir has tongue which
recites the name of Allah. His heart beats excitingly with the zikr
which sends his flesh, bones and veins into trance.
Meaning: The inward states of the zakirs change day and night.
Their heart is like a boiling cauldron kept on the fire of Ishq.
Meaning: When a spiritual traveller wishes to travel a mystic

path, he ought to follow a spiritual guide who may lead him to
the Holy Prophet through inward journey.
Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! The roof of Ishq of Allah is very high, the

ladder to reach it is the zikr of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. It will take you
to every destination, even to the station beyond all stations.
What is the sign of an alive heart and continuation of real zikr
in it? It is that, after death such a heart remains alive alongwith
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the soul. An alive heart never dies, the body that has an alive
heart neither decays nor the worms eat it up even if it keeps lying
in the grave for thousand years. Real heart is not the physical
heart whose beat you feel on left side of your chest and which is
possessed by all humans whether Muslims, non Muslims or
hypocrites, that heart is considered as a dog in the inward
spiritual way. The real heart (which may also be referred to as
the inward of a person) is of three kinds. One is the heart of men
of Divine blaze which is full of Noor of zikr, Ishq and fire of
passion for Allah. Such a heart seeks nothing but Allah. Second
is the heart of infidels which is occupied by the darkness of love
of the world, as said meaning: “Love of the world
is sheer darkness”. Such a person who keeps love of the world
may be a Muslim outwardly but inwardly he is an infidel as he is
a hypocrite and obedient to the kings and men of world (not
Allah). Third is the heart of the worldly people for whom the
spiritual way is ceased, they are disgraced as they are devoid of
marifat of Allah and unaware of their inward. Their devotions
and struggles are just like the burden carried by a donkey,
whether they are the spiritual guides or the disciples, as they seek
inclination from people (instead of Allah) and sell the bones of
their ancestors (i.e. they become spiritual guides only because
they belong to the family of Saints regardless of the fact whether
they are eligible for it or not, they occupy the seat of superior of
the shrines of their ancestors to plunder the oblations). The heart
which burns in the fire of love of Allah is completely obsessed
by Divine passion. The thirst for Allah is as soothing for it as the
warmth of fire in winter. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The pleasure of meditation is better than the pleasure

of zikr.
The meditation which is accompanied with the zikr must not
be about the love of world or knowledge or other controversies as
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Allah says: meaning: “Do the zikr of your Holy

Lord when you forget (everything)”. A Hadith tells:
Meaning: The zikr without meditation is like barking of a dog.

The zikr accompanied with meditation is that which guards
and dominates the zakir. Even when zakir is oblivious of the
zikr, the zikr is not oblivious of him, it continuous either in the
form of inward zikr or zikr of the soul, sir‟r, tongue, breath or
pas-infas. What is zikr? It is unification of soul and heart with
Allah and spiritually joining all the Prophets, Saints and mystics
in the holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad. It makes one perfect
follower of the shariah of Prophet Mohammad and keeps one
away from nafs, Satan, sins, evil, love of the world and worldly
people. The sign of true zikr is that when the zakir starts the zikr,
it takes him to the Divine Oneness or to the holy assembly of
Prophet Mohammad or to the assembly of sacred Companions
and Saints or shows him all the levels from the Throne to Chair.
When the zakir comes out of the state of absorption, all his
behaviours have been refined. Then, hunger and satiation, sleep
and awakening, intoxication and vigilance become equal for him.
The person who does not actually experience such states but
pretends to be enraptured or unconscious, is just possessed by Satan
or a demon. When such a person starts zikr, the Satan creates
illusionary forms of earth, heaven and all the stations of the Throne,
Chair and whatever is between the fourteen layers of earth and
skies and presents before him. If you see a person who is one of
the wrong innovators in the religion or a sinner or a depraved one,
do not say anything to him rather confront those who have indulged
him in wrong innovations, sins or depravity and should advise
them. Allah says:
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Meaning: You cannot guide (on the right path) whom you please,
it is Allah who guides whom He wills. (Al-Qasas-56)
Meaning: (O’ Allah!) You confer honour on whom You will and
You dishonor whom You will. (Aal-e-Imran-26)
Meaning: And Allah puts into action what He wills. (Abraham-27)
Meaning: Surely! Allah ordains whatever He wills. (Al-Maidah-1)

An ignorant is like a barren land where no seed can sprout
while a true scholar is like a fertile land, zikr of Allah is like the
seed which is sown in this land, Divine knowledge is like the
bullocks, meditation is like the plough, Shariat is like the fence
around that land, Tareeqat is like the green pasture, Haqeeqat is
like the ear of corn, marifat is like the pure grain, the fire of Ishq
is like the cooked bread while Faqr and love of Allah is like the
whole food. The people who are bounded in the physical world
cannot dare to step into this field (of Faqr and love of Allah).
The real intellect is that which leads to Allah and real knowledge
is that which grants marifat of Oneness of Allah. If a zakir remains
vigilant while doing the zikr, all the satanic stations and dangers
of sensual desires vanish and he progresses across the angelic
spheres. Whatever a man of righteousness observes, spiritually
leads him to the real way of Meraj159 and whatever the people of
wrong innovations see is just deception.
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Meaning: The real zikr is that which spiritually carries one to the
Holy Prophet. Due to the continuation of zikr and meditation,
one eventually reaches the Divine Beloved.
Meaning: If one does not find the way to the Holy Prophet even
by doing the zikr, it means his heart is blackened due to his bad
company.
Meaning: The zikr of pas-infas is the special zikr. The hypocrites

who wear tattered garments to pretend that they are very humble
are not the real zakirs.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Do any veils remain before the zakirs by

doing zikr of pas-infas? The answer is „no‟, they annihilate in
Allah absolutely.
A true zakir must feel pleasure and peace only in the zikr of his
Lord and he must not be weak or burdened (with worldly wishes
or riches). The zikr of Allah becomes the existence of the lovers,
zakirs and Arifs who are the Friends of Allah and “gharib”160.
Who is gharib? He is the one who is liberated from everything
other than Allah. The men of Divine love are the “miskeens”161.
What do we mean by miskeen? One who stays with Allah! Who
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According to mystic terminology “gharib” refers to the Saints who have nothing but
Allah
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The Arabic word “miskeen” is derived from “sakin” which means “staying at a point”.
According to mystic terminology “miskeen” is the person who stays with Allah perpetually.
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stays with Allah perpetually? Faqeer. Who is a Faqeer? The

zakir. Who is a zakir? About whom it is said in a Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: I am his companion who remembers Me (by doing My

zikr).
The men of Divine love are orphans. An orphan has no parents
and he depends on none but Allah, so he becomes closer and
closer to Allah with every passing day. The men of zikr must be
courageous and their being must be pure because the holy Ism-e-
Allah sustains only in a holy being. If a disciple starts zikr by the
permission of Murshid but his being is impure due to the love of
the world, the zikr of Ism-e-Allah will not affect him for a few
days and his heart will remain dark and rusty as before due to the
excess of filth and impurities of worldliness. So what should a
Murshid do? He should order the disciple to wash his inward
with the water of fear of Allah and soap of zikr of Allah, as zikr
of Allah is like soap and the being of disciple is like a dirty and
impure cloth. If a disciple does not obey the Murshid, then how
can a Murshid bless him!
Listen! The scholars cannot find the Ism-e-Azam from the
Holy Quran because the Ism-e-Azam sustains only in a sacred
existence. Even if one finds the Ism-e-Azam and recites it, it
would not affect him. How can the grand and pure Ism-e-Azam
affect and sustain in a disgraced and impure existence? The zikr
does not continue in the heart of a person without the Ism-e-
Azam and Ism-e-Azam only sustains in the pure being of an
accomplished and perfect Faqeer or the religious scholars who
practise what they preach. In fact, such scholars are only the
perfect Faqeers. One who trusts and depends on the Ism-e-Azam
instead of Allah is a fool. Only those find the reality of Ism-e-
Azam who are themselves blessed with it‟s powers and qualities
and they are the possessors of Ism-e-Azam. Not a single illicit
morsel can enter the stomach of perfect Faqeers and practitioner
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scholars, even if everything between the earth and skies,

intrinsically and extrinsically, becomes illicit, because they are the
masters of universe. The whole world from east to west is stable
due to their blessing. They eat just to prevent themselves from
the blame of worldly people (they do not need to eat as they
possess Divine attributes being One with Allah, but they have to
act like normal human beings to hide their reality from people).
Just as a Prophet has right upon his nation, similarly the perfect
Faqeers and practitioner scholars have right upon people. Perfect
Faqeer is the one whose inward continuously invoke the zikr-e-
sultani and the zikr-e-hamil. Zikr-e-hamil is the zikr which goes
on automatically without any effort or consciousness in the flesh,
bones, veins, heart, soul, core, sir‟r, each hair and the skin i.e. it
occupies the being of the zakir completely. Allah says:
Meaning: You do My zikr, I will do yours. (Al-Baqarah-152)

It is easy for the Faqeers to reach this level. Listen O’ man of
heart! Surpass the level of doing zikr and seek the One whose
zikr you do.
Meaning: Heart is the greatest Kaaba, vacant it from the idols (of
worldly love and wishes). It is the sacred home of Allah, do not
make it an idol shop.
There are three kinds of qalb162 according to the Hadith of the
Holy Prophet:
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Heart or the inward
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Meaning: Qalb is of three kinds, the qalb-e-saleem, the qalb-e-

muneeb and the qalb-e-shaheed. Qalb-e-saleem is the heart which
has nothing but the marifat of Allah, qalb-e-muneeb is the heart
which is attentive only towards Allah turning away from everyone
else, qalb-e-shaheed is the heart which witnesses only Allah and
His Nature in everything.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! It is better to do the zikr by heart for a while

than excessive devotions, salats and fasts.
Neither the obligatory nor the superegotary prayers are superior
than the zikr of Allah. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Such a fire is ablazed in the heart of lover of Allah that

the hell fire is cooler as compared to it.
It is certain that the heart which is deprived of the love of
Allah shall burn in the hell. The hell fire will burn everyone who
is not consumed by the fire of Ishq of Allah. Have not you heard
that:
Meaning: The hell fire fears the one whose heart contains the fire
of Ishq.
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Meaning: When my whole being burnt in the fire of Ishq, the

core of hell took fire from my heart.
Meaning: The heart which is oblivious of the secrets of Allah is

not the real heart, it is just an organ made of soil.
Meaning: The real heart is the home of Allah, how can you call
the home of devil a heart!
Meaning: The Kaaba of heart is greater than the Kaaba made of

soil and water. The heart contains hundreds and thousands of such
Kaabas.
The Faqeer Bahoo tells that the heart‟s shape is like a lily flower.
It has four chambers around the central core. Each chamber has a
kingdom vaster than the fourteen layers of earth and skies. There
is another chamber at the lower side of the heart which is
connected to the Divine world and contains its secrets. There is a
treasure of Allah in each chamber and all the chambers have a
veil upon them. On each veil there is an agent appointed by Satan.
First veil is oblivion which makes one forget the death, second
veil is covetousness, third veil is jealousy and fourth veil is
arrogance. These four veils are connected with four satanic agents
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i.e. the khannas163, the khurtum164, the khatrat165 and the

vasvasa166. The four treasures of Allah in each chamber are; the
knowledge of Allah, the zikr of Allah, marifat of Allah, Faqr
Fana Fillah Baqa Billah. Allah says;
Meaning: The khannas. Who whispers into the hearts of mankind.

Whether he (the whispering Satan) is from the jinns or humans.
(An-Nas, 4-6)
The devices for defence against the four satanic agents are; (a)
The knowledge of shariah (b) Mystic zikr (c) Meditation upon
marifat of Allah which blocks the way of nafs (d) Renunciation
of the sins and worldly love. The veils from the heart cannot be
removed by anything except the spiritual glance of perfect and
supreme Murshid. The heart is the treasure trove of secrets of
marifat of Oneness of Allah which are revealed only after the
removal of these veils and then Divinity and Lordliness manifest
from the heart. Beware and be wise! Allah says:
Meaning: Allah has not made two hearts in the breast chamber of
any person. (Al-Ahzab-4)
Meaning: Whether you study the literary and grammatical knowledge

or the knowledge of basic principles and rules of Islam, you
cannot gain anything worthy unless you attain to the union with
Allah.
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The slinking whisperer which distracts from the right path by creating delusions in the
heart.
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The intoxicating evil which distracts one by making one addicted of a particular bad
habit.
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The satanic dangers.
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The evil suggestions.
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Meaning: O’ Bahoo! While you are talking about the knowledge

of Faqr, obliterate from your heart whatever you know, except
Allah.
Allah says in Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: When you do My zikr, in fact, you express your

gratitude towards Me and when you forget to do My zikr you
deny Me.
Meaning: Engross your heart, breath and soul in concentration

upon one point (i.e. Allah), only then you will achieve the most
special zikr.
Meaning: You should have awareness of the fact that not even a
single breath is allowed to be neglectful of the Divine presence.
Meaning: Rather! There are hundreds of dangers even in the

state of Divine presence (because it is a state of duality and
perfect Saints consider it an imperfection, perfection is gained
only after ultimate Divine union). So, you must reach the Divine
world and be blessed with the Divine union.
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Meaning: There remains doubt that one may become arrogant or

a polytheist even after being blessed with the Divine presence. So,
you must annihilate yourself and become Fana Fillah.
When the Noor of Allah descends upon a true scholar, his
knowledge reveals the enlightening Divine secrets upon him. When
a Momin‟s tongue complies with his heart and they become the
same (i.e. hypocrisy ends) then his heart becomes the centre of
Noor of Ishq. The person whose heart and tongue do not agree
with each other (i.e. he is a liar or a hypocrite), the Noor of love
of Allah does not sustain in his heart. Who remains steadfast
upon his Ishq? One who never loses perseverance.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! The secret of lovers is that they ever remain

engrossed in the zikr of “Hoo”. They reach their destination by
invoking “Hoo” with their every breath.
There are three other kinds of heart. One is the heart that is like
a mountain which never moves from its place, such heart is
possessed by the lovers of Allah. Second is the heart that is like a
tree which is firm upon its roots. Third is the heart that is like a
leaf which keeps moving with the wind but does not separate
from its branch. Such is the relation of true men with Allah,
whatever calamity or trial they have to face, they are never
separated from Allah and remain absorbed in Him. Hence, the
excellence of a true seeker of Allah is that he never distrusts or
suspects the words and deeds of his Murshid, neither openly nor
secretly in his inward. When all the disciples of Shaikh Sanan
wavered in their belief upon their Murshid, only Shaikh
Fariduddin Attar remained steadfast. Such marvelous disciples
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are only a few. Faqeer Bahoo says that I searched for a Murshid
for thirty years and now I have been looking for a true seeker of
Allah for years but I could not find one.
Meaning: No one sought the marifat of Allah from me. If anyone

would have, I could have taken him to the Throne and Chair.
Then, the way of Allah would have been revealed upon him and
he would have become One with Allah separating from everyone
other than Allah.
Meaning: The lovers who have been blessed with the union of
Allah never die, as they have already submitted their life before
Allah happily.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! The Murshid should be such a strong man

who possesses Faqr Fana Fillah and is a man of compassion.
One must do the zikr of Allah with warmth of fire of love. If
the seeker is blessed with only a particle of Allah‟s love, its fire
creates such burning sensations in his body that results in the
warmth of spiritual intoxication. The warmth of zikr has soothing
effect like that of fire in winter, and it enhances passion for Allah.
On the contrary, warmth of fever produces restlessness, anxiety
and perplexity. The way of Divine presence, union, love and
Faqr is far ahead and one has to detach from everyone as well as
one‟s ownself to progress on it. Unless one undergoes annihilation
after annihilation, one cannot reach Allah. When sugar is mixed
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in water and cooked on fire, it becomes a sweet syrup, now it can

neither be called sugar nor water. Tauheed (Divine Oneness) is
like sugar, a true slave of Allah is like water while marifat and the
men of Divine union Fana Fillah Baqa Billah are like sweet syrup.
For the Fana Fillah Faqeers, hell is like a steam bath which gives
pleasure in winter, while they have forbidden paradise upon them.
No one can reach this level until he has the privilege of vision of
Allah. The seekers of desires of nafs are many but the seekers of
vision of Allah are only a few who have the pain of love for
Allah.
Meaning: Why do you go to Kaaba for sanctification, purity is

within you. You do not need to strike your head to stones, Allah
is in your ownself.
Beware of the evil nafs, it can put you in trouble by your single
mistake.
Meaning: Drink the goblet of Divine Oneness and forget the

world and the hereafter.
What is Faqr? It is a path made of pure soil sprinkled with
water, so the travellers of this path are saved from dust and
exhaustion. Who is a Faqeer? The one who is free of covetousness,
if someone gives him something he forbids not and if he gets
something he gathers not. O’ Bahoo! Be a Faqeer and adopt good
morals. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Adopt the morals of Allah.

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Be like Khidr while hiding your inward (powers and relation

with Allah) and be (humble and courteous) like Prophet
Mohammad while living among common people. He used to say
(out of humility):
Meaning: O’ Lord of Mohammad! Would that Mohammad had

not been born.
No one can be better than him. So, it is evident that the egoistic
people are Satans and the people who make high claims are like
salesmen (who sell their respect). Believe it that all such people
are the agents of Satan. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: One who refrains from speaking the truth is a dumb

Satan.
The true seeker is the one who is respectful, obedient and
conscious. Whoever is respectful, is like Jibrail and whoever is
impudent, is like Satan. The true seeker is always daring, devoted,
submissive, silent and ever engrossed in the contemplation of the
following medium which leads to the level of Fana Fi Shaikh
and Fana Fillah:
This is the medium of Lillah. By engraving it on heart and

mind, the zikr continues in soul.
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Meaning: Ism-e-Allah is the priceless and grand blessing. Its

reality is known only to the Holy Prophet.
CHAPTER VIII
DISCUSSION ABOUT DIVINE LOVE, ISHQ,
FAQR FANA FILLAH, DIVINE UNION AND
THE SPIRITUAL STATES
The zikr done with Ishq takes high flight. A fly can never
approach to the heights attained by a falcon, even if it tries hard
and flies thousand times. Similarly, an ascetic can never find the
Divine secrets even if he goes through hard ascetic disciple. The
lesson of Ishq is not taught by any teacher in any institution
because it is a grand trust. The tradition of Ishq is to detach from
the world. A true lover of Allah always seeks death so that he
spiritually reaches the Divine world, as death of a lover means
union with the Beloved.
Meaning: People consider it death but an Arif calls it meeting

with Allah. For him it is the Meraj and vision of Beloved‟s Beauty.
Death is the happiest time for an Arif just like the happiest time
for a farmer is when he reaps the crop and gets the yield after all
his hard work. The true lover is a Faqeer. What is the faith and
creed of a Faqeer? The creed of the farmers. What is the creed of a
farmer? Whatever they sow, so shall they reap. The Holy Prophet
said:
Meaning: An action is based upon the intention behind it.

Ishq is like a skillful jeweler who checks and identifies the
pure gold as pure and the impure as impure.
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Meaning: The final level of every spiritual traveller is just my

beginning. No one knows my secret, as the flies cannot reach
where I have reached being a falcon. I have forgotten myself in
the Ishq of my Beloved and burning like a moth in the fire of his
love.
Meaning: I can cover both the worlds in just one step. Only Allah
is enough for me so I have no worries. I have beheaded my nafs
and forgotten myself in the Ishq of my Beloved and burning like
a moth in the fire of His love.
Meaning: An ascetic is far away from the destination of Ishq and

is unaware of the pleasure of union of a lover with Allah. He just
claims his high levels in world. I have forgotten myself in the Ishq
of my Beloved and have become One with Him after burning like
a moth in the fire of His love.
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Meaning: My level is higher than the Throne and my destination

is beyond the station of unity. Listen my dear fellow! I have burnt
like moth in the fire of Allah‟s love and become One with Him
forgetting myself.
Meaning: If you want the blessing of His love then obliterate all
the worldly knowledge from your heart and recite Ism-e-Allah Zaat
passionately. Then you will become like a stream in the Ocean of
His Oneness, just as I have become one and the same with Him
forgetting myself and burning like moth in the fire of His Ishq.
Meaning: O’ scholars! The knowledge of Allah is a grand ocean

and you are ignorant of it like animals. If you want to have it,
forget everything except the Ishq of Allah. I have found it
forgetting myself and burning like moth in the fire of His Ishq.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! The destiny has been in my favour as “Hoo”

has become my Friend. Now I am enjoying the company of my
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Beloved. I am a moth burning in the fire of His Ishq and have

forgotten myself.
Meaning: Why should I object if the fire of His love burns me, I
am a moth not a nightingale who cries in the separation of its
beloved.
An adorer Faqeer is the secret of Allah. Only the men of secret
know the secret behind this secret. One who does not care to
save his life finds this secret. Whoever found this secret, it took
his life. You must know that the Ism-e-Allah has been quoted in
four thousand clear verses of the Holy Quran. When the Faqeer
takes the name of Allah with love, by i.e.
his heart testifies what he says by tongue, engrossing himself in
the zikr of pas-infas, on each breath which he takes with the zikr
of , he is conferred the reward of completing the Holy Quran
four thousand times. He is the memorizer of Allah as well as
Quran at the same time, his station is in Lamakan which is the
station beyond all stations and is blessed with an immortal life.
Such men of Allah are the embodiment of (They love
Allah) and (Allah loves them and they love Allah).
Ism-e-Allah contains the whole Quran. In fact, whole Quran is in
(Bismillah) as the Quran starts with the letter (B) i.e.
(Bismillah Al-Rehman Al-Raheem) and ends
at the letter (S) i.e. 167 (Minul Jinnati Wannas).
A Faqeer is a man of perfect knowledge while a scholar is a man
of details. A Faqeer has attributes of Allah, scholars have attributes
of the Prophets, while the king who is like a shadow of God for
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Last verse of Quran
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his subject, is O’lul-Amar (the man of command). The scholars

having attributes of Prophets and the O’lul-Amar kings both are
subordinate to the Faqeer having attributes of Allah. The Fana
Fillah Faqeers are completely detached from everything other
than Allah.
Meaning: If you are fearful of union with Allah then it is

impossible for you to reach the level of Faqr Fana Fillah.
Until a Faqeer is separated from Allah, he remains needy. When
he reaches the level of meaning: “When Faqr is
accomplished that is Allah” only then he becomes independent
of all needs complying to the verse meaning:
“Allah is the Independent and you all are Faqeers” (Surah
Mohammad-38). Then he reaches the level about which Allah says
meaning: “Certainly Allah is All-Powerful to
do everything” (Surah Al-Baqarah-20). Hence, he achieves all
his objectives and reaches the destination i.e. he separates from
his nafs and the carrion world completely and becomes alone
with Allah. Congratulations to him on this solitude with Allah.
Now, he is neither Allah nor other than Allah. Just like a mirror
image, it does not matter whether the face is in front of the
mirror or mirror is in front of the face. Then he becomes mirror
for everyone who comes before him. His state may also be
exemplified with the raindrop which when falls into the river,
loses its existence and becomes the river itself. Allah says about
it in a Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: Man is My secret and I am his secret.

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What is Faqr? It is the heritage of the Holy Prophet. Its beginning

as well as accomplishment lies in shariah. The true and perfect
man is the one who never steps out of shariah whether he has
been experiencing the spiritual states of sukr168, masti169, qabz170,
busst171 since eternity or is an eternal lover of Allah and a man of
Divine secrets. If he will do so, all his special ranks will be
confiscated and he will be left perplexed in a rapturous state.
Meaning: When your livelihood has been fixed in your destiny,

why do you run after it? Allah will provide it to you Himself,
you do not need to ask for it.
Man‟s livelihood seeks him just as death seeks the life. Death
reaches a person wherever he is, similarly his sustenance approaches
him. After stepping into the arena of Faqr, three levels are the
most difficult to cross. First is the level of worldliness which is
related to the physical world. At this level the worldly riches and
people are attracted towards the seeker. If he is trapped in them,
he cannot proceed and remains bounded in the physical world.
Second is the level of hereafter, at this level he observes gardens
and castles like that in the heaven during his muraqbah or dream.
If he is attracted towards them he remains stuck in the worlds of
Malakut and Jabrut. The seeker should not trust or stop at any
level he observes in the way unless he reaches the LaHoot (the
Divine world). When he reaches LaHoot only then he becomes
the true and strong seeker of Allah as said:
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Sukr is the state of spiritual intoxication. It is the state of absence of self-awareness
brought about through a powerful spiritual influence such as immersion in the zikr of
Allah, attention of the perfect Murshid, deep emotions of love for the Divine Beloved.
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Spiritual ecstasy
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Qabz is the spiritual state of contraction in which the heart is firmly gripped by the
fear of Allah. It results due to the Divine Disclosure of Jalal (Allah’s Majesty and Wrath).
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Busst is the involuntary state of expansion, which engulfs the heart with ineffable joy.
It results from the Divine Disclosure of Jamal (Allah’s Compassion and Beauty).
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Meaning: One who found Allah found everything.

What is Faqr? It is the station which is so high that the great Saint
Makhdoom Jahanian had the spiritual flight of fourteen spheres to
attain to Faqr but he could not reach there. The accomplishment
of Faqr lies in anonymity. Ibrahim Bin Adham renounced his
kingdom, sacrificed his relations and remained wandering in
perplexity, then he reached the levels of Faqr. Sultan Bayazid
Bastami performed hard mystic exercises whole of his life and
crushed his nafs completely even then he could not approach
Faqr. Shaikh Bahauddin and Shah Rukn-e-Alam also could not
approach the station of Faqr even after striving the hardest but
Hazrat Rabia of Basra (was such a beloved of Allah that she)
directly reached the highest stations of Faqr while sleeping. The
greatest of all the Saints Hazrat Shah Mohiyyuddin172 was blessed
with Faqr in the womb of his mother. He revived the true shariah
of Prophet Mohammad and became the beloved of the people of
Faqr and was entitled as “The Faqeer Mohiyyuddin”.
So, the station of Faqr is infinitely high, it makes one the
master of universe and it cannot be found by gaining high ranks
in sainthood or by achieving the power of miracles and unveiling.
Faqr is exactly the Divine Essence. It is the greatest blessing of
Allah, on whomsoever He bestows it, becomes independent of
hunger and satiation.
The title of Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani. “Mohiyyuddin” means “One
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who revivified the religion”.

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Meaning: I easily approached the station of Faqr and observed it

fully. O’ dear! I was Faqr, I am Faqr and I will remain Faqr till
eternity.
The Holy Prophet prayed to Allah:
Meaning: O’ Allah! Let me live as a miskeen, die as a miskeen

and raise me among the miskeens on the doomsday.
Faqr cannot be found through business or selling oneself, it is
neither in speech nor in silence or wearing tattered clothes. Faqr
cannot even be found by just following the paths of Shariat,
Tareeqat, Haqeeqat and Marifat. Neither it is in intoxication or
unconsciousness nor in wrong innovations or depravity, neither
in wearing leather nor in drinking wine. Faqr is not related with
customs, traditions, spiritual states of sukr and sahw173, or pursuing
stations and destinations. It cannot be gained through knowledge
or ignorance, it cannot even be bounded in six dimensions. The zikr,
meditation, having Divine presence and unification or adopting
pious deeds and devotions are also not enough to acquire Faqr. It is
neither related with time and states nor with muraqbah, self-checking
or keeping accounts. Faqr can be found only by annihilating oneself
and becoming immortal with Allah. Whomsoever Allah grants
Faqr, grants only through the munificence of Prophet Mohammad.
Meaning: Thousands of Divine theophanies of Noor descend

upon my heart. I cannot understand why Moses remained stranger
to these theophanies and kept asking Allah to show him His
vision on the mount Sinai.
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Sahw is the state of sobriety. It is returning from the state of spiritual intoxication to
oneself after having been absent from oneself whilst intoxicated with the love of the
Divine Beloved.
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Prophet Moses used to go to mount Sinai to converse with

Allah but we, the people of Faqr who belong to the ummah174 of
Prophet Mohammad, find Divine presence within ourselves.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! We find Divine presence within ourselves,

while Prophet Moses kept prostrating upon rocks of mount Sinai
requesting for it.
Meaning: Since I am drowned in Allah intrinsically as well as

extrinsically, I do not need to request (The request of
Prophet Moses, meaning: “O’ Lord! Show me your vision).
Allah says:
Meaning: You are the best of all ummahs. (Aal-e-Imran-110)
Meaning: And We are closer to him than his jugular vein. (Qaf-16)
Faqr begins with passion and longing and concludes at annihilation
in Allah. Faqr starts with simple knowledge about it but its
accomplishment lies in attaining to the level of:
Meaning: He is the Knower of the hidden as well as the evident.

He alone is the most Kind and Merciful. (Al-Hashr-22)
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Nation
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The beginning of Faqr is meaning: “Run towards

Allah”, and its peak is meaning: “Say! Allah is One”.
Faqr commenced before pre-existence and will sustain even after
eternity. In the beginning of spiritual journey of Faqr, one adopts
silence and on reaching its final stage one experiences intense
pain (of love and fear of Allah). In the beginning of journey of
Faqr, the inward of the seeker is filthy and impure while at the
final level it becomes purgated and subtle. The beginning of Faqr
is to be blessed with the rank of a Saint and its peak is to reach
infinity. The first stage of Faqr is renouncing (the world), middle
stage is detachment (from creation) and final stage is to drown in
Oneness of Allah. The first stage of Faqr is seeking, middle stage
is achieving and final stage is overcoming the nafs where the
inward dominates the outward being. In the beginning the seeker
is veiled, then he becomes mad in the love of Allah and finally
he becomes the beloved of Allah. The reality of secret of the secrets
of Faqr is prescribed in the book of heart which can never be
obtained without the help of Murshid. This secret is not mentioned
in any word of any sentence of any page of any book nor it can be
found by just zikr, meditation or by drowning in ecstatic spiritual
states. Initial level of Faqr is annihilating, middle level is separation
from both the worlds and final level is becoming One with Allah.
Know that there are three kinds of scholars, one are those who
are people of world and give information about the world, second
are the scholars of hereafter who inform about the houries, castles,
blessings and pleasures of the paradise, third are the Faqeers who
impart knowledge about Allah Himself. The lusts of the world at
last lead to perdition. For the seeker who has reached the final
level of Faqr, worrying about his life hereafter is also a veil. He
must abstain from both i.e. worldly lusts and worries of the
hereafter, this is the right approach. Firstly he should free himself
from the chains of worldly relations and then try to discover the
Truth and Reality. For the Faqeers, drowning in Divine Oneness
for a moment is better than achieving the rank of Prophet Moses
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who had the honour to converse with Allah and know His secrets
because drowning in Divine Oneness is the honour of Prophet
Mohammad. Faqr is the ultimate Meraj and the world as well as
the hereafter are forbidden upon it. Beginning of Faqr lies in
slavehood while accomplishment in Faqr grants Lordliness.
Meaning: Initially I was four (me, my Murshid, my Prophet and

Allah), when I annihilated in Murshid, we were left three. Then I
annihilated in Prophet and we remained two. At last I surpassed
duality and became One with Allah.
Faqr begins with tears (of separation from the Beloved) and
concludes at extreme adoration (for the Beloved on finding Him).
First stage of Faqr is contemplation and final stage is possessing
the authority. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: It is not strange that Faqr may convert into disbelief.175

True Faqeer is the one in whose being shariah is embedded,
even if he is spiritually raptured and stationed in the Divine world
since eternity. Initial level of Faqr is Ilm-ul-Yaqeen176, middle
level is Ain-ul-Yaqeen177 and final level is Haq-ul-Yaqeen178.
Beginning of Faqr is to be blessed with the spiritual insight and
accomplishment of Faqr is in annihilation and “death before
dying”. When one dies, one is detached and absolved of everything.
Faqeer is the one who fulfills all obligations, whether eternal or
daily, monthly, seasonal and yearly obligations. The foremost
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When the secrets of Faqr are revealed upon a seeker, if he does not believe them, he is
considered disbeliever or infidel. Another interpretation of this Hadith is that in the
modern era people will not understand the path of Faqr and will deny it considering it a
disbelief.
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Faith gained by knowledge only.
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Faith gained through observation.
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The final level of faith gained through experience.
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obligation is to consider Allah Omnipresent and All-Seeing while

the greatest Sunnah is to sacrifice your every possession in the
way of Allah. Faqr begins with right faith, sincerity and belief in
Murshid while it accomplishes on being blessed with the company
of Allah.
It is related that once Hazrat Rabia had the privilege of seeing
the Holy Prophet in dream. He asked her, “O’ Rabia! Do you
adore me?” She replied, “O’ Prophet of Allah! How is it possible
that I do not adore you! However my heart is so much occupied
by the love of Allah and I am so much absorbed in Divine
Oneness and state of annihilation in Allah that I have forgotten
everything else.” Listen! The existence of Faqeers is the symbol
of Power of Allah. Their power can be described by the incident
that when the Holy Prophet prayed for the defeat of the infidels
by saying meaning: “Let their faces be mutilated”, it
happened as he uttered (so the power of Faqeers is that whatever
they order, is done). The secret (level) of Faqeers is beyond the
Sidra-tul-Muntaha179. Faqeer Bahoo says that the level of Fana
Fillah Faqeer is more distinguished and dignified than the level
of all the Atqiya (pious ones), Uqaba (successfuls) Najaba
(honourables), Abdals180, Autads181, Akhiyars182, Amada183,
Ghaus184, Qutbs185, Shaikhs, ascetics and worshippers. He is
above them all because he is the ruler of the realm of Divinity.
By the Grace of Allah, the distinguished universal man (Faqeer)
is only under the command of the Holy Prophet whose ultimate
closeness with Allah is described in Quran as:
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The Lote tree at the utmost boundary of creation.
180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185
Ranks of Saints
181
182
183
184
185
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Meaning: Then a distance measuring only two bow-length was

left (between Allah unveiled and His esteemed beloved) or even
less than that (in extreme nearness). (Al-Najm-9)
His dignified title is “Noor-ul-Huda” (the light of guidance).
Meaning: My beloved is with me, I ever see Him. I have easily

attained to the station which is too difficult for everyone else to
approach.
Allah says:
Meaning: Everything that is in heavens and earth glorify Allah.

He is All-Mighty, All-Wise. (Al-Hashr-1)
Meaning: If you remove two alphabets from BAHOO i.e. „B‟

and „A‟, only HOO remains.
Meaning: There remained no veil before Bahoo and he became

one with Hoo by doing the zikr of Ya-Hoo morning and evening.
Meaning: One who does the zikr of Hoo, Hoo manifests in his
being. Then, the Noor of Hoo reflects from his whole existence.
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Meaning: He secretly reaches the station beyond time and space

and his body as well as soul convert into a theophany of Noor.
Meaning: Meditate upon His signs not upon His Essence.
Meaning: Bahoo works very hard in doing the zikr of Hoo. The
lovers find their sustenance of Ishq from the zikr of Hoo.
Allah says:
Meaning: Allah (only)! There is no one worthy of worship but

Hoo. (Al-Baqarah-254)
Meaning: One who wants to become the beloved of Allah must

be efficient and diligent in offering the eternal prayer i.e. zikr of
Hoo.
Meaning: One who truly glorifies Allah being engrossed in Him, his
body, heart, soul rather every part of body does the zikr separately.
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Meaning: O’ Bahoo! For us, even offering the eternal prayer is a

veil. I have sacrificed my life and drowned in the Divine
presence.
Even if one reaches this highest level of Divine presence, he
must not miss the five time salat otherwise his rank will be taken
away and he will be left with deception only. We take refuge of
Allah from this. You must understand that the love of Allah is
like lamp while inclination of creation and power of miracles and
unveiling is like wind. If one does not keep this lamp inside the
cover of shariah, it is put out. When the wind blows, its light
extinguishes. The men of faith face decline due to five things.
One who does not take these five things under his control, the
way of Faqr does not open upon him. What are those five things?
The five senses i.e. the sense of hearing, sight, taste, smell and
touch. These five are like a thief within oneself as they are friends
of nafs. One should repent from the wrong deeds of each one of
them. The repentance of ears is not to hear what is forbidden to
hear, the repentance of eyes is not to see what is forbidden to
see, the repentance of tongue is not to say what is forbidden to
say, the repentance of hands is not to touch or hold whatever is
forbidden to touch or hold and the repentance of feet is not to go
wherever it is forbidden to go. The scholars, jurists, judges, rulers
and kings investigate and check thousands of people on the basis
of shariah but never check or investigate their own nafs even
once in their life. However, the Faqeers always keep check upon
their nafs and hold it accountable day and night. After this
accountability, the Ishq which is like a judge in their being orders
to kill the nafs, the love which is the jurist orders to behead it
while the zikr and meditation act like a ruler and issue the order
to imprison it with the chains of sincerity to Allah and put a
necklet of obedience to the shariah of Prophet Mohammad around
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its neck. I am surprised at the behavior of those people who judge

others and hold them worthy of punishment but never check their
own nafs and let it ruin themselves. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: A time will come when people of my nation will recite

Quran and offer salat in mosques but their hearts will be devoid
of faith.
Listen! It is not compulsory to adopt extra pious deeds or
acquire too much knowledge, however to sincerely act upon the
knowledge you have gained about the religion and abstaining from
the sins is compulsory. Excess of worships is also not obligatory.
The person who consciously keeps himself away from sins is
truly the pious and knowledgeable person. If a person ever remains
worshipping in the nights and keeps fasts in the days but commits
sins as before then it means that his worships are not benefitting
him and he is inclined towards evil. So, it should be understood
that one must not gain knowledge from the teacher who is the
seeker of world as it is said that meaning: “The company
affects strongly”. Allah says:
Meaning: (O’ beloved!) Invite towards the path of your Lord

with strategic wisdom and refined exhortation. (Al-Nahl-125)
One must not acquire spiritual persuasion from a Murshid who
seeks worldly benefits and keeps in touch with kings and
aristocrats for this purpose, because his worldliness would at last
affect his disciples as well. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The love and adornment of world are darkness.

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Only a shameless person runs after desires of the world. If

someone threatens a seeker of Allah to accept worldly benefit or
else he would be killed, it is better for him to accept death instead
of worldliness because world is cursed by Allah and is His enemy.
Allah orders the world seventy times a day to keep away from
His friends and appear with its ugly and hideous face before
them so that they may refrain from it and do not seek anything
from it. On observing its horrifying reality they would not at all
be attracted or inclined towards it and would repent from it.
Allah says to the world, “O’ world! I do not like your friends, you
do not like Mine (and do not come near them)”. The scholars who
seek worldly benefits are deprived of the religious benefits. Even
if someone gathers money with an excuse that he is collecting
money to help deserving Muslims, Faqeers or poor, it is just his
deception i.e. he is deceitfully gathering wealth. The worldly
people do not find peace while doing zikr, meditation and
adopting solitude for Allah.
Meaning: The Holy Prophet divorced the world thrice. It becomes

unlawful to accept a woman as wife after divorcing her thrice. I
also divorce the world thrice. Anyone who likes the world, falls
into evil.
Begging may be of two kinds i.e. asking for lawful things or
for unlawful things. The Holy Prophet said: meaning:
“begging is unlawful”. Asking for satanic needs, desires of nafs
or demands of immortal worldly pleasures is unlawful. However,
asking for lawful needs in a lawful manner is allowed, such as the
request made by Saints and Gnostics out of their love for Allah
in the court of Allah and Holy Prophet to bless them with their
closeness is absolutely lawful. Had this request been unlawful,
Allah would not have said:
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Meaning: Do not reproach any beggar. (Ad-Duha-10)

The Faqeers ever request for help and favour in the deeds that
take them close to Allah and recite the holy verses for this purpose
which is lawful, it is said:
Meaning: Guiding towards good is like doing good.

What are the attributes of a Faqeer? He is perpetually fighting
and crushing the infidel nafs, that is why his nafs is ever
complaining and crying. He is the lover of Allah, a living soldier,
contented at Allah‟s will and a judge of his ownself who always
keeps check upon his nafs. He was ranked as an adorer of Allah
in eternity when the destinies were being written. He is the seeker
of Allah who is ever engrossed in the zikr of Allah by pas-infas
and is never separated from Allah even for a moment. It is
obligatory upon him to beg to his spiritual guide (Murshid) for
purgation of his inward. Begging is unlawful for the one who is
not doing it for the purity of his inward, as he is a scoundrel who
follows the desires of his nafs.
Meaning: Nafs is my enemy and I am its enemy, that is why I

disgrace it wherever I go.
Begging for knowledge is lawful for that student who is not
seeking knowledge for earning worldliness rather he wants to
gain knowledge of Allah so that the hidden reality is revealed
upon him. Begging for knowledge is unlawful for the one who
acquires knowledge to earn worldliness. Allah says:
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Meaning: (O’ beloved Prophet!) Tell them the worldly gains are
a trifle. (An-Nisa-77)
Seeker of the world is a miser. If a seeker of Allah does the
tasawur of ninety nine beautiful names of Allah, his heart is
purified of the love of the world.
Meaning: No one is worthy of worship but Allah, Mohammad is

His Messenger.
Meaning: I bear witness that there is no one to be worshipped but

Allah Who has no partners and I bear witness that Mohammad is
His Messenger and a special slave.
One who contemplates the ninety nine beautiful names of Allah
becomes a passionate adorer of Allah.
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Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Alif186 (A) of Allah is sufficient for you

(as it contains) everything and every knowledge, do not seek
(B). Obliterate everything from your heart that you have learnt
other than Allah.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Zikr of Allah is our faith, we have acquired

this zikr from the Holy Prophet.
Meaning: I wanted to go to Kaaba for its circumambulation, Kaaba

told me to cleanse my heart first and then go to it.
Meaning: Kaaba is ever present before the one whose heart is

cleansed and the way to clean the heart is to go against the
desires of nafs.
Allah says:
Meaning: He (Allah) taught man what he did not know. (Al-Alaq-1)
The Holy Prophet said meaning: “Whatever good

morals I learnt, I learnt from my Holy Lord.”
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Alif is the first Arabic alphabet and it refers to Ism-e-Allah which starts with Alif.
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EXPLANATION OF KALMA TAYYAB

Hadiths:
Meaning: The greatest zikr is .
 The Holy Prophet said, “If someone recites kalma tayyab after
salat loudly extending his voice, the hell fire is forbidden
upon him.”
 The Holy Prophet said, “Whoever recites kalma (with

verification of heart), his reward is paradise.”
 The Holy Prophet said, “There are twenty four letters in

and there are twenty four hours in a day
as well. When a person recites kalma tayyab, its each letter
omits his sins of each hour like the fire burns the fuel.”
 The Holy Prophet said, “Allah says, is

My fortification. Whoever comes within this fortification is
saved from My punishment.”
 The Holy Prophet said, “When a person recites

forty times in a single spell, his sins of
seventy years are forgiven because the whole knowledge of
religion from start till end is included in
while all the other books are just its interpretation.”
Your Beloved is within you, you can view Him in the mirror of
your heart whenever you wish. The mirror of heart which has
turned black due to rust and filth (of worldly desires and sins)
does not reflect any theophany of His Noor. So, one must cleanse
the mirror of one‟s heart. If one‟s heart is cleansed, the evil
thoughts cannot enter it. Whosoever recites
hundred times in his lifetime, Allah forbids the hellfire to touch
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any part of his body. When a person recites kalma tayyab, its
effects shake the pillars of the Throne. Allah commands them to
stop shaking. The pillars reply, “O Lord! How can we stop
shaking unless you forgive this person”. Allah says, “I have
forgiven him”. Kalma is the key of paradise.
 The Holy Prophet said, “The hellfire cannot burn the person
who frequently recites ”.
Meaning: omits all the sins. When one‟s inwards is occupied

by the Divine Essence, there remains no arrogance in him.
Meaning: There are many who recite verbally

but only a few say it sincerely by heart.
Meaning: One who recites sincerely, will enter

the paradise without any accountability or punishment.
If one‟s heart does not verify the kalma, then reciting it merely
by tongue will not benefit him. Hadith:
Meaning: Declare the faith by tongue and verify it by heart.

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the coin but the gold or silver inside the coin is defective, then
its purity can be checked by putting it in the fire, then it is taken
out of the fire and put into water. If it is pure, it would shine
brightly and if it is impure, its colour would be blackened as if it
is ashamed of itself. Hence, everything depend upon the sincerity
and verification of the inward. How can this sincerity and
verification of the inward be acquired? Through the zikr of heart,
and from where this zikr is obtained? From the Shaikh (Murshid)
who has found Divine unification. What is the quality of a true
Shaikh? It is:
Meaning: The Shaikh enlivens the heart and kills the nafs.
How can it be known that the heart has been enlivened? Just as
tongue is a piece of flesh and it recites the name of Allah loudly,
similarly heart is also a piece of flesh, when enlivened it also
invokes the name of Allah which can be heard by oneself and
those around him. The Shaikh must also possess the quality of:
Meaning: A Shaikh revives the Sunnahs and puts an end to wrong

innovations.
If the heart of the disciple is occupied by the love of world and

involved in lusts and appetites of nafs which have made it
extremely polluted and is not at all refraining from the carcass
world then the Shaikh should burnish it by the zikr of Allah and
convert the seeker of world into the seeker of Allah. A Murshid
possesses the qualities of Lord as well. Hazrat Ali said:
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In the era of Sultan Bahoo was inscribed upon the gold and silver
coins.
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Meaning: The person who taught me even a word is my Lord.
That word must not be different to what is written in Quran or

other books of religion. If a slave of Allah comes to understand
that “one word” there will not remain any veil between Allah
and him. However, he must be a man of values, practises the
knowledge of Islamic laws and Hadith and follows the way of
Prophet Mohammad. The true man is the one whose inward is in
LaHoot i.e. the world of Divinity and outwardly he follows the
shariah perfectly so much so that not even one of his deeds is
against shariah. The Murshid is the man of mediums that take the
seeker towards Allah in just a blink of an eye. The seeker who is
blessed with the longing for Allah through the effect of zikr of
Allah, does not like anyone other than Allah. The seeker upon
whom Ism-e-Hoo affects, loves only Hoo and is disgusted of
everyone other than Allah. So, just as a deer likes the company of
deer and birds of a feather flock together, Bahoo loves to remain
in the company of YaHoo. For a Fana Fillah Faqeer who is the
Friend of Allah and a man of zikr of , his family, progeny, all
relations, friends, possessions, wealth i.e. everything is transitory.
He considers this world just a temporary spectacle and keeps his
attention towards the doomsday and hereafter. He does not even
like high ranks and worldly honour. The ranks of Faqr are
infinitely high and its station is beyond all stations. Quran states:
Meaning: None (from His creation) will dare converse with Him.
(Al-Naba-37)
The Faqeer who claims possession of any worldly thing except

the closeness of Allah and considers his place of residence as his
property, turns infidel. He gains nothing from his so called
mysticism or dervishism. O’ son of Adam! You must not be
inferior to a dog, as dogs do not possess any property or permanent
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residence. According to a Hadith meaning: “An

endowment is no one‟s property”. Just as a mosque is no one‟s
property and is devoted for everyone, similarly the Faqeers are
not owned by any particular individual, they are beneficent for
everyone and are a place of prostration for all the distinguished
men of Allah.
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There is not anyone in both the world except Hoo
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Allah says, “I know everything that you do not”. (Al-Baqarah-30)
CHAPTER IX
DISCUSSION ABOUT WINE, THE REALITY
OF FRIENDS OF ALLAH AND RENOUNCING
EVERYTHING OTHER THAN ALLAH
Allah says:
Meaning: Do not go near salat in a drunken state. (An-Nisa-43)

Know that the wine drinkers are friends of Satan. Whosoever
drinks wine, his life in both the worlds is miserable. One must
drink the wine of love of Allah from the hands of Prophet
Mohammad the host at the heavenly spring of Kausar. People
who drink worldly wine are deprived of this blessing. Drinking
wine is like committing adultery with one‟s mother inside Kaaba
five times. Curse on him seventy times. One who takes drugs is a
fool and moron. An addict of poppyhead is an enemy of Allah
and a friend of Satan. One who smokes, follows the custom of
Jews and infidels and approaches the level of cursed Namrood.
One who drinks alcohol, the salat and fasts become disgusted of
him. This world is a place of infidelity, singing and dancing. The
wine drinkers like singing and dancing just like the infidels who
prostrate idols and sing and dance before them. All this is sheer
wrongness, depravity and deception. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: A liar is not included in my nation.
Meaning: I fear about the weak faith of the people of my nation.

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Meaning: Curse upon the wine drinkers, singers and dancers.

They all are sinners who do not offer salat. It is better to call
them pigs and asses.
You must not keep company of such satanic people. One must
know that there is another opposite kind of dancing and singing
which is out of ecstasy of love for Allah and is called as mystic
raqs. That kind of mystic raqs is lawful for the Faqeers whose
nafs has been annihilated and who are drowned in the Divine
Oneness. The frenzy caused by music and dance takes towards
Satan while the spiritual ecstasy caused without music and dance
is created by the zikr of Allah done with love and passion. A
Faqeer can do mystic raqs when he listens to the mystic music
which excites him to do raqs. If the name of Allah is mentioned
in the sufi songs, it creates warmth of love for Allah in him. If
his state is real, he will fall down due to the intensity of warmth
and (his nafs) will die there and then. If that state is inferior, first
he will not make any movement, then he will fall down and his
body will turn cold as if he is dead. He will regain consciousness
afterwards. If his state is worst, his body will turn hot like fire
and it would seem as if smoke is coming out of his mouth. Then
this fire will turn into the Divine blaze and will burn his whole
existence into ashes. From that ash, a piece of flesh will be
created, that piece of flesh will start moving and reciting zikr of
Allah, then he will return to his original form. Sometimes it
happens that while doing mystic raqs, the cover of the physical
body is burnt due to the heat of zikr of Allah and the Faqeer
wears another cover. Whoever does not experience these states
while doing mystic raqs is surely lost in the wildernerss of
decline and trapped in the evil of Satan. We seek refuge of Allah
from this. One who is intoxicated by the Divine ecstasy, does not
need any other kind of ecstasy. The wine drinkers are deprived of
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the pleasure of Divine ecstasy as they had not tasted the goblet of
this intoxicating ecstasy in the eternity and have not approached
the Reality. They are the imperfect ones who have bought the
hellfire for themselves. They have separated themselves from the
true religion of Prophet Mohammad just for the sake of enjoying
the transitory lusts and pleasures of this world. The Holy Prophet
said:
Meaning: If I fear, I fear that my nation will be involved in the

evil (sodomy) committed by the nation of Prophet Lot.
The zikr and meditation of the people of wrong innovations
who do not offer salat is not accepted in the court of Allah. Allah
says:
Meaning: (O’ beloved!) Say unto them, if you love Allah, follow
me. Allah will then take you as (His) beloved. (Aal-e-Imran-31)
During the spiritual journey, if you get the power of walking
on water, you are considered a hay straw and if you can fly in
air, you are just like a bee. One may be considered worthy only
when one is blessed with the consent of Prophet Mohammad.
Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. The worldly gains
are the share of the mean people and worldliness is an everlasting
disgrace. The worldly wealth is the property of Satan. You can
observe yourself that how worried are the worldly people for the
worldly gains. The people of Faqr are as loyal to Allah as the
worldly people are to the Satan. Allah says:
Meaning: O’ children of Adam! Did I not take this covenant from

you not to worship Satan, no doubt he is your open enemy.
(Yasin-60)
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It is strange that these people trust the world and Satan but
keep enmity with Allah. We seek refuge of Allah from this.
World is just a misery which puts it‟s friends in misery too and
Satan is the evil which indulges it‟s friends in the evil and
calamities as well. Ism-e-Allah Zaat is the eternal peace and
grants it‟s friends the eternal peace in both the worlds. Allah be
glorified! The people who turn away from the Divine Essence,
become a prey to evil thoughts and satanic dangers, they sleep in
ignorance and rise in the state of lust and greed. Man is
accountable for every particle around him, still he is indulged in
lie and deceit. His lust for the world shall eventually result in
punishment in the hereafter and he will be among the disgraced
ones. Bahoo! The worldly people are so unwise that they run
after money day and night. It is their only aim and objective and
they worship it as their god. The seekers of the world are reprobates
and morons. The pleasures of the world are just like nocturnal
emission, and they are forbidden upon the men of Allah. The
world is like an immodest and shameless woman while the
seekers of world are disloyal.
Meaning: One should keep away from women, even if the

woman is pious or a great worshipper. There isn‟t any benefit in
their company.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Although the world is beautiful and charming

but its beauty is like the skin of the snake.
The world is like cash money (which can buy only temporary
pleasures) and its seekers are greedy like dogs and have no
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wisdom like the cattle. The seekers of Allah have no awareness

of the pleasures of world. The faqeerism and dervishism are the
real eminence and Allah does not grant them to anyone except
the Prophets, Saints and the reverend men of faith, as only they
are the sincere and faithful ones. The Holy Prophet said,
meaning: “Momin is a mirror of another Momin”.
What is exactly the world? Everything that keeps a person
away from Allah is the world. Only a small amount of money
proves to be enough if a person is contented. An indigent never
claimed to be God, only the men of world made such claims. The
Holy Prophet never saved any money, he spent everything in the
way of Allah so that he might not be counted among the worldly
people. The Imam of Muslims Hazrat Imam-e-Azam Abu Hanifa
did not accept the designation of judge even for a single day lest
he might be counted among judges on the doomsday. Strangely,
everyone dislikes the world but likes to keep it, everyone likes
Allah and believes Him to be his Creator but turns away from
Him. Surely! The people who claim to be the seekers of Allah
but are loyal to the world and are the men of world, have dual
hearts and dual hypocritic pale faces.
Meaning: Even if whole of the earth is turned into gold, the

worldly people will not be sated. Since they have turned away
from Allah, their faces have become pale and black.
All the wealth of the world is just a disgrace and all the
worldly people are irreligious.
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Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Consider this world an infidelity which is

the share of infidels only. Those who are guided by the Divinity
become the friends of the Divine Reality.
If someone raises the name of Allah, these worldly people
object against him but when someone raises the name of world
which is another name of Satan, no one objects. Saying Jal’la-
Jala’lohoo (the Glorious and Almighty) with the name of Allah is
a general obligation whose performance by some absolves all, so
it is not wrong if you say it. It is evident that if someone feels
angry on hearing the name of Allah, he belongs to one of the
three categories; either he is a seeker of world or a slave of Satan
or an arrogant who is trapped in the sensual desires. We seek
refuge of Allah from this. One feels good and happy, outwardly
as well as inwardly, while taking the name of his beloved but if
name of someone‟s enemy is taken before him, he feels bad.
Hence, the people of Faqr feel bad when others talk about world
or Satan but the worldly scholars feel happy while talking about
their earnings or when they are told that the king or an aristocrat
has granted them a piece of land or called them in his court. May
Allah save us from such greedy scholars who are the seekers of
world. You must not listen to their words and should not follow
their bad conduct as they have been deprived of their honourable
status and the inheritance of true worships. That is why they
worriedly run after rulers and rich people. A scholar falls into the
ditch of destruction and poverty when he does not follow the
words of Allah in the Holy Quran and a Faqeer faces disgrace
and perplexity when his trust upon Allah shakes and his attention
diverts towards the worldly people. We seek shelter of Allah
from this. May Allah save us from the scholars who do not
practise what they preach and the so called Faqeers who are
impatient and do not trust upon Allah completely. Only Allah!
Everything other than Allah is lust. The true Faqeers never go to
the door of rulers and worldly people even if they have to eat
grass and leaves for twelve years or starve to death. The scholars
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who practise their knowledge are used to penury. Such scholars

are only the perfect Faqeers who get their sustenance from
hunger and poverty and by staying in the company of The
Eternally Sustained and Forever Alive. Their stomach is like a
cauldron, they can absorb water like sand does and their tongue
is like a sharp sword. The more they eat, the more they do the
zikr of Allah as they have killed their nafs (which creates more
desires when the stomach is full). A Faqeer is never oblivious of
Allah even for a moment whether he is experiencing the state of
Jalal (Divine Wrath and Majesty) or Jamal (Divine Compassion
and Beauty). The food for Faqeers is like fuel for fire in the
stove. The fire of Ishq and Noor is ever lit in their stomach.
Sometimes they experience Divine presence and sometimes
separation from the Beloved, hence the fire is sometimes ablazed
and sometimes cooled down. Such Divine men are aware of
every reality and fact.
Meaning: The power of love and passion for Allah reveals every
hidden reality and all the facts of both the worlds upon the
lovers.
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Meaning: The scholars say, “People give money to the beggars

because they beg using the name of Allah, they do not give us
anything despite that we know and teach all the laws of religion.”
My answer to them is that they do not practise what they preach.
When a dervish gets inclined towards worldly wealth, his knowledge
loses efficacy and is wasted. This wealth closes the doors of
reality upon them. One who feels delighted on getting the
worldly riches is not a true Dervish.
A Dervish collects pearls of mystic secrets, he does not go at

the doors of the rich to collect money.
Meaning: Someone asked a Faqeer his name and status. He said,

“Reach the Lamakan (station beyond time and space) and ask
Allah about it yourself”.
Read the Tablet and know yourself that honour lies in which
thing? It is totally in faqeerism. Dervishism and faqeerism is
neither in verbosity nor in reading or writing, neither in solving
the problems nor in storytelling. Faqr can be found only by
acquiring marifat of Allah and engrossing oneself in the Divine
Oneness. It is to annihilate oneself being detached from the
sensual desires and satanic evils. Faqr is to keep quiet and be
obedient and polite. It is forgetting everything other than Allah
and carefully doing the zikr of pas-infas with heart and soul. Faqr
lies in following the shariah perfectly. It is an ocean filled with
priceless pearls which can be brought out by diving into the
LaHoot Lamakan190. Faqr is to repent from watching the dark
faces of the worldly people. The Holy Prophet said,
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 “One who sees the face of cruel worldly people (i.e. meet
them) for the sake of gaining worldly benefit from them, is
deprived of one third of his faith”.
O’ Allah! You have put an ocean of lustful desires in my self
and warned me to beware of them. O’ Allah! Without your favour
and help I cannot solve this maze. You made nafs and Satan my
enemies and ordered me to fight against them. I cannot see my
enemies with my physical eyes. O’ Allah! Grant me the insight
so that I can see my outward and inward enemies and fight
against them. O’ Allah! I need your favour to be with me always.
You have filled me with desires, temptations and lusts and
ordered me to be free of them, I cannot get rid of them without
your grace.
Meaning: “None but Allah is dear to me”, the seekers of Allah

need to have this much wisdom only.
Shariat means to devotedly go against the evil of the Satan.
The basic conditions of Shariat are; to bid righteousness and do
good deeds, to feel ashamed of disobeying Allah, eat only that is
allowed, speak the truth, have knowhow of major and minor sins,
acquire knowledge and wisdom, fortify oneself by religious
obligations, Sunnahs, compulsory and desirable acts and worship
within this fortification by the grace and help of Allah.
The precondition in Tareeqat (mysticism) is to have speed, just
like a falcon who reaches its destination in no time. While in
Haqeeqat (the Reality) the condition is to take Allah as the sole
Reality i.e. to believe that only He exists, whatever happens is
from Him. Do not dare to object my friend!
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The good for all the creation is Prophet Mohammad and evil is
the Satan. You decide what do you want? The condition for Marifat
(gnosis) is to be sympathetic. The more marifat one gains the
more humble he becomes. Whosoever is unaware of the reality
of these four levels i.e. Shariat, Tareeqat, Haqeeqat and Marifat
is ignorant like animals. He does not know anything about the
spiritual journey of mysticism and faqeerism.
Meaning: I am worse than every bad thing you see, even in such
worst conditions I have found the closeness to Allah.
You should know that at all these four levels (i.e. Shariat,
Tareeqat, Haqeeqat and Marifat), there are spiritual states of
qabz, busst and sukr, while at the level of Tareeqat there is agony
also. May Allah save us from the agony of death, specially the
unexpected sudden death. Whether the seeker is at initial, middle
or final level, as soon as he enters the level of Tareeqat he starts
understanding his spiritual states and guards himself from evil.
Reciting darood191 in the state of ecstasy keeps one safe. Shariat
is like breath of a person and Tareeqat is like step, a person takes
step when he intends to start a journey. Tareeqat is the spiritual
path, one needs provisions like food and water while travelling a
path otherwise he may reach near death out of thirst and hunger.
Shariat is like boat and Tareeqat is like river which is ever in the
Noah‟s deluge and its stormy waves are turning everything in
tospy turvy. So, to cross this river, the guidance of Murshid is
inevitable who is like a favourable wind, he takes out the boat
from the storm and saves it from sinking. Many of the seekers
are trapped in the labyrinth of Tareeqat as tremendous sukr i.e.
spiritual intoxication is produced in it. Sometimes the power of
miracles and unveiling traps the seeker which stops his progress
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Salutations and blessings upon the Holy Prophet.
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and sometimes he is trapped in enjoying the spiritual flight. The

state of sukr also produces bewilderment in some seekers. In
Tareeqat, some seekers become majzoob due to the heat of zikr
and some are attacked by vasvasa192, khatrat193, khurtum194 and
khannas195. Some seekers become mad, unconscious, disgusted
of their family and some give up salat. At the level of Tareeqat
strong attraction of Divine Majesty and Beauty is also produced,
some seekers cannot tolerate it and become lunatic and perish in
the stormy river of Tareeqat. Some of the seekers who were
strongly affected by this attraction hung themselves to death and
some went to deserts being crazy and met death due to starvation.
The intoxicating blaze produced at the level of Tareeqat keeps the
seeker restless day and night, neither he sleeps at night nor finds
peace in the day. He adopts humility, wears coarse clothes and
keeps himself engrossed in the zikr of heart. The intoxication of
Tareeqat may turn one infidel. The path of Tareeqat may end up in
two ways, either one is declined to the cursed levels or raised to
servitude, lordliness and union with Allah, hence his separation
converts into closeness. While being at the level of Tareeqat, one
must shun all the pleasures. Without a Murshid, a seeker may
take forty years to cross the level of Tareeqat. However, if he is
following a Murshid, he can take the seeker out of the states of
Tareeqat in just a moment and carry him to the level of Haqeeat.
The first requirement at the level of Haqeeqat is to be respectful.
A seeker must feel the Omnipresence of Allah and always consider
himself present before Allah so that he may become obedient,
adopt pious deeds and gain composure. Then he covers all the
waystations coming ahead by the Grace of Allah as Allah himself
opens the ways for him, hence he becomes independent of every
desire. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust.
192, 193, 194, 195

See glossary
193
194
195
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Meaning: Islam is the truth and infidelity is falsehood.
Meaning: Humility benefits a humble person only when he is

also careful about fulfilling all the obligations and Sunnahs.
Meaning: The eternal obligation (i.e. doing zikr with every breath)
is beneficial when accompanied with five time daily salat and
thirty fasts (of the month of Ramadan). The five pillars of Islam
(kalma, salat, fasts, zakat and hajj) are the treasures of the way
of Faqr.
At the level of Tareeqat, everything of the universe is inclined
towards the seeker like jinns, angels, wealth etc. This is in fact a
trial for the seeker. Thousands of seekers were lost in this vortex of
Tareeqat. Only one out of thousands safely reached the destination
by the Grace of Allah and benediction of Faqeers. Its condition is
that a seeker must be accompanied with a perfect Murshid who
is perfect and kind like Prophet Mohammad, who helps him
every moment in every matter and blesses him in every way. The
imperfect Murshid himself is helplessly trapped in Tareeqat and
desires of the carrion world, how can he help the seeker!
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! If a seeker follows the true guide (Murshid)

who leads towards the Divinity, he can take the seeker to the
holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad.
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A Faqeer must not be hypocrite, a theologian should not be

greedy and the rich must be generous. Patience is difficult for the
Faqeer196, generosity is difficult for the scholar, justice is difficult
for the king and for a judge it is difficult to stop taking bribery.
Similarly, the special tasks are difficult for the commoners while
the common tasks are difficult for the special ones. The special
ones are the Faqeers and the commoners are the worldly people.
If the special ones are given the wealth of the whole world, they
would not accept it and if the commoners are given Faqr and
poverty alongwith high ranks of Saints, they would not accept
that. Allah says:
Meaning: One group will be in heaven and the other in hell. (Ash-
Shra-7)
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Meaning: I have created humans and jinns for My worship only

(Al-Zariat-56) i.e. for My marifat.
The people of worships are the scholars while the people of
marifat are the Arifs (Gnostics). A worshipper is the beginner in
the way of marifat while an Arif is the proficient of this way.
How can a beginner know the states and status of a proficient.
There are two levels of Shariat as well as Tareeqat. The first level
of Shariat is to embrace Islam perfectly. Allah says to the Holy
Prophet:
Meaning: (O’ beloved tell them!) I look like you only (by virtue
of my appearance) as a man (but I am not exactly like you in
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As he cannot stay away from Allah.
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Hazrat Abdullah Ibn-e-Abbas added the words (meaning: i.e. for My marifat)
while explaining (meaning: for My worship).
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creation), it is me upon whom Allah descends the revelation. (Al-

Kahf-110)
The final level of Shariat is to obey all its orders. Quran states
about Prophet Mohammad;
Meaning: He does not speak out of his (own) desire. (Al-Najm-3)

The first level of Tareeqat is to traverse the path. When the
seeker reaches the destination of Haqeeqat, he finds himself
before the physical manifestation of Allah The King, where all
the seekers are standing attentively, respectfully and quietly
waiting for the orders. Next is the level of Marifat where he has
to obey all the orders which he receives through inspiration and
are like the laws of Shariat for him. These inspirations are in a
clear voice just like a person delivers a message to the other.
This is the level of Messengers of Allah (who receive message
from Allah and deliver it to people). After conveying the laws of
Shariat to common people the Prophets bless the special ones with
the reward of Tareeqat which is not meant for the commoners.
Tareeqat is the path to find Allah through His Ishq. Whoever
follows Tareeqat perfectly becomes an Arif Billah and an adorer
of Allah blessed with His union as well as the Muarif Murshid
and a man of forgiveness for others. This path of Tareeqat leads
to the boundless level of Divine Oneness.
Meaning: At the level of Divine Oneness, there is Oneness of

Divine Existence everywhere. If you see anything except the
Divine Oneness, that is idol worshipping.
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Meaning: Anything that makes you oblivious of Allah is your

idol.
Shariat, Tareeqat, Haqeeqat and Marifat all are included in
Faqr. The final level of Shariat of Faqr and Tareeqat of Faqr is
the Ishq of Faqr which leads to that level of Faqr where there
remains nothing but Allah. Faqr is like an ocean which is filled
with deadly poison. Whoever reaches this ocean and drinks a cup
out of it, is martyred and martyrdom grants everlasting life to the
martyr. He actually attains to the level of “death before dying”
and entrusts himself to Allah. Quran teaches:
Meaning: And I consign all my affairs to Allah. Surely Allah is

Ever Watchful of the servants. (Momin-44)
You must know that Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique is an embodiment
of Shariat, Hazrat Umar bin Khitab is an embodiment of Tareeqat,
Hazrat Usman Ghani is an embodiment of Haqeeqat, Hazrat Ali
Karam Allah Wajhu is an embodiment of Marifat while the Holy
Prophet is the Divine secret. Hazrat Abu Bakr is truthfulness,
Hazrat Umar bin Khitab is justice and accountability of nafs,
Hazrat Usman Ghani is modesty, Hazrat Ali Karam Allah Wajhu
is generosity and kindness while the Holy Prophet is Faqr.
Hazrat Abu Bakr is air, Hazrat Umar bin Khitab is water, Hazrat
Usman is fire, Hazrat Ali is soil while the Holy Prophet is the
soul of man's body made of these four elements. Allah says
about Insan (the man) in a Qudsi Hadith:
Meaning: Insan (man) is My secret and I am his secret.

The Holy Prophet is the Insan-e-Kamil i.e. the perfect and
universal Divine Man while all others198 have attained to the
Here “all others” refer to Hazrat Abu Bakr, Hazrat Umar, Hazrat Usman, Hazrat Ali as
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well as the perfect Faqeers and Saints i.e. Insan-e-Kamils who came after them.
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levels (of perfection and proximity to Allah) through him

according to their statuses. Hence, they achieved their objectives
and destinations and became independent of both the worlds.
Meaning: From the Holy Prophet, Hazrat Abu Bakr siddique got
the attribute of truthfulness, Hazrat Umar got justice, Hazrat
Usman got modesty and Hazrat Ali got Faqr.
Meaning: May Allah bless them with benevolence in both the

worlds.
Meaning: (The travellers of path of Faqr) progress towards Allah

headlong instead of walking on steps.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! I travel in Lamakan beheaded. How can the

attributes of lovers of Allah be described!
When a lover of Allah Faqeer Fana Fillah reaches this level his
muraqbah becomes so strong that when he closes his eyes, he
can reach wherever he wishes and when he opens his physical
eyes he finds himself actually there, physically as well as
spiritually. He can join whichever gathering he wants as he has
crossed the final level of Tareeqat (so he has become spiritually
strong enough). What is the difference between a seeker at the
initial level of Tareeqat and the seeker at the final level? The
seeker at initial level views Allah before him but the seeker at
final level becomes unconscious of himself (due to overpowering
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theophanies of love of Allah) and entrusts himself to Allah. He

views Allah with Haq-ul-Yaqeen reaching at the level of
Lordliness, neither he is Allah nor other than Allah.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! All the happiness and beauty of spring is due

to the company of Beloved. Without the Beloved nothing feels
good or delightful.
Meaning: The worldly people have burdened themselves by

hoarding money that is why they all are tormented and disgraced.
The Holy Prophet has said meaning: “An

indigent is under the protection of Allah”. The indigents are the
light weighted ones as they are not burdened with worldly wealth.
Meaning: I seek forgiveness of Allah for saying anything that I

do not practise myself.
A point contains thousands of books but that point cannot be
contained in thousand books and that point is Ism-e-Allah
which is apparently a word but both the worlds sacrifice themselves
upon this word. There is no comparison between this word and
the whole cosmos.
Humans are of three kinds; the rational animals who are veiled
from the reality, the majzoobs who have become lunatic by the
Divine attraction as they could not bear it and reached the level
of jinns, third are the beloved ones who have reached the level of
real man as is the Holy Prophet. Just as a fake person who is
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used to live in a stinking place cannot tolerate the pure scent of

rosewater or any other fragrance, similarly the pure people cannot
tolerate the bad odour of a carrion. The Faqeers who are the men
of Allah and men of Divine knowledge are like pure scent and
the worldly people are the fake ones who seek the carrion and
want to live in its bad odour, they are the slanderers.
The whole world is divided into three kinds of people; first are
the Faqeers whom Allah has blessed with His zikr, meditation,
union, Divine presence, levels of Fana (annihilation), Baqa
(immortality) and Tauheed (Divine Oneness). Allah has bestowed
upon them the ecstasy of His Ishq and liberated them from
everything other than Allah. He has made them crazy in His love
so they do not seek anything except Allah, they are the seekers
of Allah who are the real men. Second are the scholars whom
Allah has blessed with knowledge, clemency, practice upon
knowledge, piety and made them wise and awared. He entitled
the true scholars as the inheritors of the Prophets regarding the
Sunnahs of the Holy Prophet i.e. they would be considered the
heirs of Prophets if they follow the footsteps of Holy Prophet
exactly in words and deeds, and renounce the world following
him. Third kind is the worldly people whom Allah has granted
beauty and riches of the world and made them infidels and
hypocrites, there creation is like that of dogs, pigs and donkeys.
Allah has kept them away from Himself. The seeker should
judge himself on the basis of the above mentioned attributes and
decide justly that which of the three categories he belongs to.
Faqeers are also of two kinds; those who abandon the world
and those who are independent of the world. What is the difference
between the two? Those who have become Faqeer and abandoned
the world hypocritically are the ones who renounce world with
an intention to gather wealth. They do it just to pretend to be
different from the worldly people but in fact they are loyal to
them instead of Allah. Hence, they are not the true renouncers of
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the world. They have just guised themselves as Faqeers and are
selling themselves to earn worldly gains, they have no relation
with the dignified Faqr. The Holy Prophet said about them:
Meaning: They renounce the world for the world.

The Faqeers who truly renounce the world and become
independent of it are those who abandon the world as well as the
worldly people. Whatever they get as oblation or gift, they give
in the way of Allah. One who has these qualities is the Faqeer and
the king of renouncers. When a Faqeer becomes absolutely
independent and free of the world, he is blessed with eternal
peace whether he stays at a place or keeps travelling. Such Faqeers
are called the Sultan199 of Arifs and eternal kings. One who ever
remains attentive towards Allah does not like anything except
Allah, he gives away the world in the way of Allah. Allah detached
Prophet Abraham from the tribe of infidels and attached him
with Himself, while Abu Jahal supported his tribe (in enmity
against Prophet Mohammad) so he was separated from Kaaba.
Meaning: Since eternity, I have been included in the tribe of

lovers. When a lover is separated from the beloved, it does not
matter to him whether he is thrown in hell or send to heaven,
mosque and church become equal for him.
Meaning: If the whole world is swept away with wind, the lamp
of favourites of Allah will not be extinguished.
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King
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Meaning: One who tries to blow out the lamp lit by Allah, burns
his own beard.
The Faqeers and kings both need nothing.
Meaning: The kings and Faqeers are strange people, neither they
are dictated by anyone nor they will be.
The Faqeers need nothing because they are One with the Divine
Essence who is independent of needs and the kings need nothing
because they already have everything, however the kings‟
possessions are transitory while the rule of Faqeers is everlasting.
When the people of hell would be lamenting and crying and
the people of paradise would be enjoying with the houries in the
castles of paradise, the Faqeers and seekers of vision of Allah
would be wailing due to the fire of Ishq and separation from
Allah. They would be imploring Allah for His vision in such a
way that would surprise the people of hell and heaven. When
their request would reach the court of Allah, it would be ordained
from Allah, “I have allowed you to enter the paradise, so enjoy
yourself and be at peace like the people of paradise”. The seekers
of vision of Allah would request, “O’ Allah! Paradise is also like
hell to us. Your separation and the longing to have Your vision
has ablazed such fire of Ishq in our hearts that if we heave a sigh
out of pain of Your love, it will burn the paradise. We are just
anxious to have Your vision, paradise is a carrion for us.” Then
Allah would allow them to have His vision. He would say, “You
have suffered a lot of hardships for My vision, so I would not
deprive you of that”. When the seekers of vision would behold
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the Divine Countenance they would lay intoxicated for years and
years. The ecstasy of Faqeers is a part of that intoxication and a
sign of their being blessed with Divine vision.
It is related that once Prophet Isa (Christ) saw the world in the
form of a widow. She had a colourul sheet on her head while her
back was bent. One of her hands was adorned with henna while
other was stained with blood. Christ asked her, “O’ cursed! Why
is your back bent?” She replied “O’ Christ! I have killed my son,
that is why my back is bent”. Christ asked, “Why have you wrapped
a colourful sheet?” She answered, “To seduce young men.”
Christ inquired, “Why is your hand stained with blood, what
have you done?” she said, “I have slaughtered my husband”. He
asked, “Then why have you adorned your other hand?” She told,
“I have got myself a new husband at the same time”. Christ was
surprised to hear all this. She proceeded, “O’ Christ! The more
surprising thing is that when I kill a father, his son becomes my
lover and if I kill the son, his father becomes my lover. When I
kill one brother, the other becomes my seeker. O’ Christ, the most
strange thing is that I have killed thousands of my lovers but no
one was ever displeased with me on his death. Whoever seeks
me is not a real man, the real men do not seek me. I do not like
those who like me, I like those who do not like me”. Worldly
gains are the satanic possessions, when a person takes money in
his hands, the accursed Satan says to him, “You have sold your
faith and religion to me because worldly wealth is my possession,
as soon as someone holds my possession in his hands, he enters
my religion. He becomes a sinner like me and recedes from the
religion of Prophet Mohammad.”
Faqeer Bahoo says that if all the wealth, gold and silver of the
world is gathered alongwith all the good deeds of the worldly
people like performing hajj, giving zakat, reciting Quran,
donating alms, learning the laws of religion and whatever is in
both the worlds is collected, it would be nothing as compared to
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one breath of the lovers of Allah which they take in the Ishq of
Allah and indigence of Faqr, because everything related to worldly
people would perish but the breath of a Faqeer would sustain
forever. The people of outward good deeds are the labourers of
paradise while people of Faqr are the men of Divine presence.
Faqr is the religion and faith of the Holy Prophet. What is the
faith of the Holy Prophet? The same as the faith of the cultivator
i.e. “As you sow, so shall you reap. ” The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Verily, an action is based upon the intention behind it.

Religion does not benefit the dissenters, kharijites, sinners and
seekers of the world (as the intention with which they follow the
religion is not correct). The Holy Prophet followed the way of
Prophet Abraham which is to renounce the world and seek Allah
only. He was not amongst the seekers of world who are misers and
surrounded by satanic apprehensions which ruin their faith.
Imam-e-Azam200 followed the same great way. You must know
that when a coin is stamped (i.e. a piece of metal is stamped to
make it a coin) the Satan holds it, touches it with his forehead
and says, “Whoever likes you is my slave”. O’ dear if you want
closeness of Allah you must get rid of the calamity of worldly
wealth which is as big as the mountain of Qaf. You must remove
the chains of its curse so that you are liberated from this Satanism.
A person must not leave the Faqr of Prophet Mohammad which is
the greatest blessing of Allah and run after the bones greedily
like dogs. One who does so should not be called a slave of Allah
rather he is a dog, as the Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: The world is a carrion and its seekers are dogs.
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The great leader of Muslim, appellation of Imam Abu Hanifa.
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A carrion stinks so much that even an executioner rejects it, it

is eatable for the dogs only. If a person enters the domain of Faqr
and renounces the world for thousand years but then if the world
attracts him only once, it means he still has love of the carrion
world in his heart and he is the seeker of worldly honour not a
true seeker of the way of Faqr.
It is related that a sacred Companion of the Holy Prophet had
only one sheet that was used by him as well as his respected
wife. When the Holy Prophet saw him in such a condition he
asked him to take four thousand dirhams201 to spend upon himself.
The sacred Companion consulted his wife but she refused to let
the worldly wealth, which is the worst enemy of a person, enter
her house. The Companion said, “If we do not take the money, it
would be disobedience to the Holy Prophet.” The wife suggested
that they should offer two nafls202 and pray Allah to grant them
death so that they do not have to take the money. They did the
same and embraced death. Contrarily, in the world of today people
offer nafls to get the money. We seek refuge of Allah from this.
Meaning: What is the reality of worldly wealth? It is the chain

round the feet. Its prisoners can‟t be helped by anyone.
The true seeker of Allah must not be greedy for anything while
travelling the way to Allah. Greed is the first sin that manifested
in this world. Every morning Satan raises the slogan of greed and
covetousness so that the worldly Satans may hear it.
It is related that a king married his daughter to a Faqeer.
King‟s daughter came to the Faqeer‟s house after marriage. She
had not yet put her shoes off when she saw a piece of barley
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Currency of Arab
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Superegotary prayer
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bread in his house. She asked the Faqeer why he had kept that
piece of bread. He told that he had received two pieces of bread
the previous night, he ate one and kept the other for next day.
The daughter of king started crying. The Faqeer asked, “Are you
crying because you are daughter of a king and you have to live in
a poor Faqeer‟s house?” She replied, “No, I am crying because I
thought you would be a true Dervish but you are not, your trust
upon Allah is not even equal to a dog as you have saved bread
for the next day. I am unlawful upon you.” She went to her father
and said to him, “The person you married me is not a Dervish rather
a greedy person who has no trust upon Allah as he covetously
hoards things instead of giving them in the way of Allah. He is a
follower of Satan as his heart is not attentive towards Allah.”
Meaning: A miser is an enemy of Allah even if he is an ascetic.

The enemies of Allah are cursed. On the doomsday, the
worldly people will deny that they had been miser and covetous
in the world saying, “O’ Allah! If a Dervish or a Faqeer had
come to us, we would have spent all our wealth in Your way.”
You must know that It is Allah who puts in the heart of a
mendicant Faqeer to go to so and so person as He has entrusted
His wealth to that person. If that person gives something to the
Faqeer, he actually gives it to Allah and whatever the Faqeer
gets, that too is from Allah. If the Faqeer considers it from that
so and so person instead of Allah, he becomes infidel. We seek
refuge of Allah from this. If a person says (or thinks) that he has
given something to someone, he also becomes infidel as It is
only Allah Who gives and Who makes sources to give. Once
Sultan Bayazid Bastami asked a shroud stealer about the
condition of dead in graves. He replied, “O’ Sultan! I have opened
about one thousand and one graves and stole the shroud of the
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dead in them but none of them had his face towards qibla203
except two.” Sultan Bayazid said, “You are right, all of them
were the seekers of the world except those two. Whoever loves
the world, never turns towards the real qibla as the worldly
wealth is his qibla and religion.” The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: Renunciation of the world is foundation of all worships

while the love of world is the root cause of every evil.
Faqeers are of four kinds. First are the men of inward (or
spirituality), second are the men of station, their station in
eternity is the same as was in pre-existence (i.e. they return to
their origin), third are the men of meaning (i.e. the men having
knowledge) and fourth are the men of stomach (i.e. greedy and
lustful, they are not the true Faqeers but the so called Faqeers).
The true Faqeers can be classified into four categories (a) Faqeer
who remains in the state of amazement (b) Faqeer who weeps
over his faults (c) Faqeer who burns himself in the fire of Ishq
(d) Faqeer who passionately engrosses his heart in the zikr of
Allah and perpetually remains in the ecstasy of Divine Oneness.
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CHAPTER X
DISCUSSION ABOUT FANA FILLAH FAQR
AND RENOUNCING THE WORLD AND
EVERYTHING OTHER THAN ALLAH
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! The seeker who reaches the level of Fana

Fillah converts to Noor totally. Then knowledge, zikr or Divine
presence become veil for him (as now he himself has become
Divine).
For the men of Divine presence, zikr and knowledge are
considered disrespectful acts just as it is considered disrespectful
to take the name of a king while being present before him. Divine
presence is also a sign of separation from the Divine Oneness so it
is considered polytheism in the way of Faqr. A seeker does not
get rid of this polytheism unless he drowns completely in Divine
Oneness being separated from everything other than Allah and
becomes One with Allah surpassing the levels of Ishq and Fana
Fillah and forgetting every knowledge and zikr.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! What is meant by zikr and knowledge? It

means to struggle and take pain (to reach close to Allah). When
a seeker finds the treasure (of closeness to Allah) he does not
need to struggle anymore.
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Meaning: The pleasure of meditation is better than the pleasure

of zikr.
Meaning: Knowledge is a great veil from Allah.

Some spiritual travellers, disciples or Murshids think that they
have found Divine presence but it is just their misapprehension
or whim. Actually they are far away from the Divine presence
and are like the ox that drives the oil press with blindfolded eyes,
it moves round and round the oil well all the day and thinks that
it has travelled a long distance but when its eyes are opened, it
finds itself at the same place.
Meaning: One who claims to have the Divine presence is far away
from Reality. Only that seeker is blessed with Divine presence
who is away from himself.
The word Faqr has three letters204 . The letter

(F) refers to Fana (annihilation) of nafs, (Q) refers to Qurb
(closeness) of grave and (R) refers to Roohaniyat (spirituality).
Faqr means “death before dying”. If twelve thousand people who
recite litanies and perform glorification rounds are gathered at
one place they cannot collectively achieve the rank of one zakir. If
twelve thousand zakirs are combined they cannot collectively
approach to the level of the man of Divine inspiration. If twelve
thousand men of Divine inspiration who have achieved the
blessing of conversation with Allah are combined, they cannot
collectively attain to the level of a seeker blessed with Divine
presence and drowned in the state of muraqbah. If twelve thousand
profficients of muraqbah who are absorbed in Divinity get
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According to Arabic or Persian alphabets.
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together, they cannot collectively approach to the level of a Fana

Fillah Faqeer.
Meaning: One who has attained to the Divine Oneness is

immortal in both the worlds.
Meaning: When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah.

Invoking Allah and doing zikr by heart only once is better

than doing zikr by tongue twelve thousand times. Doing zikr by
soul once is better than doing zikr by heart twelve thousand
times. Doing zikr by sir‟r (the core where Divine secret is
concealed) only once is better than doing zikr by soul twelve
thousand times. On progressing further than sir‟r, one reaches
the level of accomplishment of Faqr where his worships and sins
become the same, then sleeping and awakening, ecstasy and
vigilance become equal for him.
What is the sign of station of accomplishment of Faqr? It is the
station which is beyond intellect, recitation, zikr and meditation.
Where there is absolute Divinity, there is only the (soundless)
voice of secret of Hoo. Where there is the king, no one can shout
or make noise because the kings do not like noise. So, where there
is The Eternal, there isn‟t any noise or fault. Where the Sultan
encamps, there remains no interference of commoners. The person
who seeks fame and name and is interrupted by controversies is
not a Faqeer. In the gatherings of Faqeers there is only the
discussion about Allah, His Prophets, His Saints and His zikr. It
is said:
Meaning: Remembering the Saints is better than worshipping.

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If a Faqeer has to speak, he should talk only about Allah, His

Prophets and His Saints otherwise it is better for him to remain
quiet.
Faqeer Bahoo says that a Faqeer should prefer to get his neck
struck off than to go to worldly people except for the love of
Allah (i.e. to invite them towards Allah). If a Faqeer goes to the
house of a king or worldly people, his sin cannot be pardoned
unless hair of his head and beard are shaven and he is made to
ride a donkey chased by children making fun of him and is
ridiculed in every nook and corner of the city by people who
taunt him saying, “Here is the Faqeer who became hopeless of
Allah and went to the door of worldly people to ask for money
and oblations”. He might be warned in this way. Only that Faqeer
loves the world and worldly people who has no marifat of Allah
and is rejected and expelled out of the court of Allah because his
attention diverted towards world and worldly people. If a Faqeer
seeks help of worldly people, he is deprived of his faqeerism and
is considered a liar and fraud. We seek refuge of Allah from this.
World is like a sea, people of world are like fish and crocodiles in
it, the men having knowledge of reality are like sea birds who
live on water but do not let their feathers get wet, while Faqeers
are like swans and cranes which stay near the bank of sea and get
their destined livelihood from the sea but never step into the
water or drown in the sea. A Faqeer gets nothing from the world
because his self respect and honour is related only to Allah. The
worldly people are pale faced as they have sold their self respect
to the yellow gold and have become dishonoured. There isn‟t any
relation between the honourables and the dishonoured ones.
It is related that minister of a king relinquished his post and
adopted the way of Faqr with utmost sincerity. One day the king
passed by him and asked, “What did you get from Faqr after
leaving me and my ministry?” He answered, “I got five things.
First is that when I was with you, you used to sit comfortably
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while I kept standing with folded hands. You never allowed me

to sit, but when I pray to Allah, He allows me to sit twice in every
four rakats205 of salat. Secondly, when you slept peacefully, I
remained awake to guard you from your enemies, now I sleep
peacefully and my Allah protects me. Thirdly, you ate delicious
foods but never offered me while my Allah does not eat Himself
rather grants me food and provides me livelihood abundantly.
Fourthly, had I been with you, people would have held me
accountable for all your faults after your death but now I know
that my Lord is Eternally Alive and He will not hold this meek
slave accountable. Fifthly, the fear of your wrath and cruelty
never let me have peace but now I am relieved as I know that my
Holy Lord is Forgiving and Merciful.”
It is related about Sultan Bayazid Bastami who ever kept fast
in the day and worshipped at night, that one day while offering
salat he felt uneasy and distracted. He said to his disciples, “O’
friends! It feels as if some worldly thing has entered my place”.
The disciples swore that they had been with him for twelve years
but they had never seen even a penny in his house or tasted
delicious food. Sultan emphasized, “There must be some reason
for my distraction”. So the disciples swept the whole house and
found a date under his bed. When they took it to Sultan, he said,
“If someone keeps even such a trivial thing in his house, he is a
trader (not slave or seeker of Allah).”
Faqeer Bahoo tells that there are four kinds of Faqeers, some
are those whose outward is perplexed but inward is composed
like Hazrat Khidr, some are those whose outward is composed
but inward is perplexed like Prophet Moses, then there are some
whose inward as well as outward are adorned and composed like
our beloved Prophet Mohammad and some are perplexed outwardly
as well as inwardly like Balam Baoor. If nafs of a Faqeer desires
for any worldly thing, he should reproach it, “Be in your limits!
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You must be whipped hundred times, go and beg to the worldly

people, this is your punishment for losing trust upon Allah. If
you do not want to go and beg then stop making worldly
wishes”. If some worldly people want to come to meet that
Faqeer, he should tell his nafs, “People think you are a Faqeer
but you are a worldly person yourself. You should be given a
shoe beating hundred times so that the filth of the world is
removed from you, then come near me otherwise do not.” If the
Faqeer is truthful and sincere with Allah, his nafs would be
embarrassed and subdued, then his veil (of the worldly desire)
would be removed and he will become a perfect relinquisher Faqeer
otherwise watching the face of worldly people would create
satanic distractions in him as they are the brigands of way of
Faqr. We seek refuge of Allah from this.
It is related that a Faqeer went into seclusion and kept only a
date as his food. When he felt starved, he boiled that date in
excessive water and then drank a cup of that extract and gave a
cup to each of his visitors as well which sated all of them. In this
way he lived on that single date for fifty years. When that date
was finished, the Dervish died. Hence, he gave his life but never
went to the worldly people to ask for anything. The Holy Prophet
said, “A seeker of Allah should not think of three things, firstly
he must not think of the world with love, secondly he must not
think about the worldly people with love, thirdly he must not be
attracted towards the desires of his nafs.”
Meaning: Do you know what is Faqr? It is to live in LaHoot

eternally. In the way of Faqr keeping quiet is essential.
Quran teaches:
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Meaning: O’ Allah! We worship and seek help from You alone.

(Al-Fatiha-4)
Imam Ahmad bin Hunbal relates that the Holy Prophet said,
“A time will come when some people of my ummah would be
Muslim during the day but will go to bed as infidels while some
people will sleep as Muslims but would rise as infidels in the
morning. This would happen because they would talk too much
unnecessarily and say many such things during their conversation
which are included in disbelief but they would not be aware of
it.” It is also related that the Holy Prophet added, “At that time
faith of only those people will be saved who will join the
gatherings of practitioner scholars of religion and perfect Faqeers
and listen their conversation about Allah and engage themselves
in the zikr and knowledge of Allah. If they would believe in the
words of Faqeers and act upon their advices, they would be
saved from infidelity and polytheism.” A Qudsi Hadith states:
Meaning: O’ Mohammad! Live in this world like a stranger or a

traveller and count yourself among the dead.
Hadiths:
Meaning: World is the paradise of donkeys.
Meaning: World is a house of dogs.
Meaning: Pleasures of the world are the pride of infidels.

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Meaning: The pleasure of the world is (unlawful) like flesh of

pork.
Meaning: World is blackness of heart.
Meaning: Ishq is such a fire that burns everything present in the

heart except Allah.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Thanks to Allah that the martyrs of love do

not die as their soul annihilates in Allah who is immortal.
Meaning: On the day of resurrection, closest to me amongst you

would be the one who had meditated and starved for long time.
Meaning: Starvation is the essence of worships.

However, the starvation and austerities should be within the
limits set by shariah. Too much austerities may turn one infidel
and prolonged hunger may make him mad, such extra hardships
can consume his wisdom and he may indulge in deception. If one
gets the power to observe every hidden and visible thing of the
seven spheres of earth and skies and from deep down the ocean
to up above the sky, without attaining to the level of Fana Fillah,
then all such powers are considered sheer depravity and against
shariah. We seek refuge of Allah from this.
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Once, a group of Muslims passed by a Saint who was extremely

engrossed in Allah. He asked them, “Where are you going?”
They told him that they were going to combat against the infidels.
The Saint‟s nafs said to him that they should also accompany
those Muslims to fight against the infidels and win over them.
The Saint said to his nafs, “I know you very well, you are trapping
me. Either you want to eat much or take rest after being tired
during the combat so that you are saved from worships and
devotions”. The nafs said, “There is no harm in it”. The Saint
said to the nafs, “You are an enemy of Allah, what would you
get from battle against infidels? Tell me truthfully what is your
real intention?” Nafs replied, “Let me tell you my real aim. You
kill me every moment day and night with the sword of zikr and
Ishq of Allah and through Faqr and hunger. I find it better to be
killed once and for all while fighting against the infidels and get
rid of this agony.” Faqeer Bahoo says that a particle of love of
Allah is better than hajj, salat, zakat, superagotary prayers, fighting
against infidels and worships of all jinns, humans, angels, fairies
and giants. However, in this path of love and sincerity, a Faqeer
must be truthful, steadfast and firm in his belief. Such perfect
Faqeers reach the ultimate level of Ishq and attain the highest
ranks. Thousands of Divine secrets are revealed upon the men of
Ishq and their innerself is enriched with the theophanies of Noor
of Allah.
Once an eminent person sent a big amount of money to a Saint
as gift. The Saint said to him, “You have sent such a thing to a
friend of Allah which Allah considers His enemy. Is this a sign
of goodwill from you? There are many who need this money,
you should have given it to them.” True Faqeer is the one who does
not cast even a single glance upon the world or worldly people,
as seeing them darkens the heart.
It is related that a Saint retired into seclusion. The ruler of that
country came to see him and presented him an amount. The Saint
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said, “O’ enemy of Allah! Why are you showing enmity and malice
against me? Take this money away from me. There are many
seekers and lovers of it, give it to them. One who truly trusts
upon Allah never keeps such worldly things.” Allah says:
Meaning: (O’ beloved Prophet!) Tell them the worldly gains are
a trifle. (An-Nisa-77)
Faqeer Bahoo says that the seekers of world are either hypocrites
or pretenders. The world is a Satan and its seekers are devils,
world is a violence and rebellion and its seekers are rebellious,
world is a hypocrisy and its seekers are hypocrites, world is an
impurity and its seekers are impure, world is a lie and its seekers
are liars, world is polytheism and its seekers are polytheists,
world is an evil and its seekers are also evil, world is a curse and
its seekers are accursed. Only the irreligious and disobedient fools
love the worldly riches. World is an ignorance and its seekers are
ignorants. World is a prostitute and a worldly man is a cuckold
who sees his whore wife in the sensual company of others but
does not object. The Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: A cuckold will not enter the paradise.

Faqeer is a real man, not a pimp or an effeminate. World is just
a trifle and people of world are its slaves who run after such a
minor thing day and night. The men of Allah are special so the
ordinary world is forbidden upon them. Who are the special
men? Those who have got rid of the trivial world. Whosoever is
detached from the world becomes sincere to Allah. The sign of
the Dervishes who are men of wisdom and the Faqeers who are
men of Divine presence is that their heart is purified of the love
of the world. One who abstains from sensual desires becomes a
man of passion for Allah, one who leaves the world is a man of
fervour, one who separates from everything other than Allah is a
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man of longing and yearning, and the one who protects himself
from all these evils is blessed with Ishq of Allah.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Do you know what is the reality of this world?

It is full of calamities and grieves. It is such an evil which makes
one oblivious of the zikr and meditation upon Allah.
What is world? It is duality and separation from Allah. One
who is indulged in duality and separated from Allah is actually
on the way of Satan. Allah says:
Meaning: Travel through the earth and observe what has been
the end of those who denied (the Truth). (Al-Inam-11)
World has been declared a foul play. One who loves Allah is
the enemy of Satan and the one who loves the world is the
enemy of Allah. People who are inclined towards the world are
wrong in their claim of love for Allah, whether they are scholars or
ignorants. If even a penny is found in the possession of a perfect
Faqeer or a practitioner scholar after his death, he is considered a
liar as regards his love for Allah. He left the world deprived of
love of Allah and without achieving his objective. That penny
should be put in fire and when it is red hot, his forehead should
be branded with it so that he is marked as one of the worldly
men. Verily, one who loves money, does not love Allah. We
seek refuge of Allah from this. Alas! Your oblivion has turned
you blind and you have forgotten your death and grave. All this
is due the nuisance of worldly wealth which has descended upon
you in the form of wrath of Allah. The Holy Prophet said:
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Meaning: The life of this world is just a day and we are fasting
on that day.
Meaning: The name of Allah is enough for those blessed with

union of Allah. They are forever engrossed in the love of Divine
Majesty.
One must know that the real enemy of the Holy Prophet was
the worldly wealth. Had Abu Jahal been an indigent he would
have followed the Holy Prophet. It was the worldly wealth that
martyred Imam Hassan and Hussain. Had Yazid been a poor
person he would have obeyed the Imams, as the Imams were the
beloveds of Hazrat Fatima-tuz-Zahra and the Holy Prophet and
the descendants of Hazrat Ali. Hence, the worldly people who
love money are like Abu Jahal and Yazid not like Hazrat Rabia
of Basra and Sultan Bayazid Bastami. This world is the murderer
of sacred Companions of the Prophet and his dear grandsons
Hazrat Imam Hassan and Imam Hussain. How can one find any
good in loving this world! World is the wrath of Allah, it is all
bloody and its seekers are mean infidels and enemies of Allah-
The Unresembled and Unparalleled Entity. World is a wrong
innovation and its seeker is an atheist. Only the seekers of the
world claim to be God. The world is like a whore who is disgraced
and distrusted in both the worlds. Only Allah! Everything other
than Allah is lust! The treasure of Abu Jahal and Yazid was just
gold and silver, and their army comprised of horses, elephants,
servants and soldiers. While, patience and gratitude, zikr and
meditation, passion and Ishq, salat and fasts, Faqr and hunger,
Quran and Hadith were the treasures of the Holy Prophet and the
sacred Imams, and their army comprised of the true believers and
sacred Companions. The medium of announcement for Abu-Jahal
and Yazid were the drums, trumpet and bugle while the medium
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of announcement for the Holy Prophet and sacred Imams were

and are the call of Azan, loud zikr of Allah and slogan of Allah.
The worldly kingdom and the worldly mediums of announcement
are false and temporary while the kingdom and medium of
announcement used by the Holy Prophet are everlasting. Islam is
the true and the right religion.
Meaning: O’ Allah! Help all those who helped Mohammad in

(spreading Your) religion. There is no one worthy of worship but
Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger.
Allah says:
Meaning: (You will be granted) Help from Allah and a near

victory, give this good news to the believers. (As-Saff-13)
Meaning: Then Allah alone is the best Protector, and He alone is

the most Merciful of all the merciful. (Yusuf-64)
Meaning: There is not any friend or giver of success except

Allah.
Meaning: We have indeed given the right to his heir. (Bani-Israil-

33)

Four kinds of armies were alongwith the Holy Prophet; the
army of sacred Companions, army of angels and martyrs, army
of knowledge, army of good morals and clemency. The armies of
sacred Companions, angels and martyrs were the two outward
armies while the armies of knowledge, good morals and clemency
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were the two inward armies. When Abu-Jahal offered wealth,

gold, silver and worldly rule to the true believers, they paid no
heed to it and sacrificed their life for the Holy Prophet and in the
way of Allah, as, for them the faith was the dearest. However,
there were some hypocrites about whom Allah said:
Meaning: They believe, then they disbelieve. (An-Nisa-137)
Meaning: Wavering between (belief and disbelief). (An-Nisa-143)

When the Holy Prophet decided to migrate towards Madina
from Makkah on the order of Allah, the sacred Companions who
extremely loved the Holy Prophet accompanied him and did not
hesitate to sacrifice their lives and properties for him. Those who
had love for their families, properties and land, stayed back and
were deprived of the opportunity to accompany the Prophet in
migration. The group of sacred Companions who were true lovers
and Faqeers had this honour, they were the ones who were
liberated from the chains of worldly greed. Allah says:
Meaning: Among you were some who desired gains of this

world and some others who sought reward in the hereafter. (Aal-e-
Imran-152)
Meaning: Then, he who transgressed the limits. And preferred

the life of the world (to the hereafter). No doubt! Hell would be
(his) abode. (An-Naz’iat, 37-39)
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Meaning: Faith of none amongst you is complete unless he loves

me more than his parents and all the other people.
If the earth and skies are embellished with gold and the rule of
whole earth is presented, the true men of religion would be only
those who will not put even a glance upon that embellishment
and will not sell their faith for that rule. The religion of Prophet
Mohammad is superior to both the worlds, rather both the worlds
can be sacrificed for the religion of Mohammad. The true religion
is the religion of Mohammad, the true faith is faith upon
Mohammad. The value of both the worlds cannot be equal to the
kalma tayyab as it is superior to both the
worlds. The earth and skies, the Throne, Chair, Guarded Tablet
and each and every creation invoke zikr of Allah.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! is engraved on the heart of a

Momin. is recited by all the people of paradise.
There is a period of two thousand and twenty two (2022) years
between Prophet Adam and Prophet Noah, eleven hundred
(1100) years between Prophet Noah and Prophet Abraham, five
hundred and seventy (570) years between Prophet Abraham and
Prophet Dawood (David), five hundred (500) years between
Prophet Dawood and Prophet Moses, eleven hundred and eighty
seven (1187) years between Prophet Moses and Prophet Isa
(Christ), six hundred (600) years between Prophet Isa and
Prophet Mohammad, which shows that Prophet Mohammad was
born five thousand nine hundred and seventy nine (5979) years
after Adam. Hazrat Ans bin Malik relates that the Holy Prophet
said:
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Meaning: There would always remain forty Abdals in my ummah

till the doomsday. Twenty two of them will be stationed in Syria
and eighteen in Iraq. When any one of them would die, he would
be replaced by another. Their number would never be less than
forty. When the doomsday would come near, all forty of them
would leave the world at a time.
Hazrat Ibn-e-Abbas relates another Hadith:
Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Allah would create three

hundred men whose hearts would be like the heart of Adam,
forty men whose hearts would be like the heart of Moses, seven
men whose hearts would be like the heart of Abraham, five men
would have hearts like that of angel Jibrail, three men would
have hearts like that of angel Mikail, one of the men would have
heart like that of angel Israfil. When that one man would die, one
of the three men would take his place. When one of the three
would die, someone amongst the five would replace him. When
any one of the five would die someone from the seven would
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occupy his seat. When someone from the seven would die, one
amongst the forty would fill his place. When someone from the
forty would die, one amongst the three hundred would take his
place. When any of the three hundred would die, someone
eligible from the common Muslims would be given his place.
There number would never decrease till the doomsday. By their
benediction, the ummah would be saved from the calamities.”
Allah says to Prophet Mohammad in a Qudsi Hadith:
 Beloved Mohammad! I created one Adam before the Adam
who is your forefather and blessed him with an age of thousand
years. When he died I created fifteen thousand more Adams
and granted each one of them an age of ten thousand years.
After all of them I created the Adam who is your ancestor.
It is narrated in the book Asrar-ul-Fatiha that one day Hassan
of Basra, Malik bin Dinar, Shafiq Balkhi and Rabia of Basra
were discussing about truthfulness in a meeting. Hazrat Hassan
of Basra said, “One who does not adopt patience upon the pain
inflicted by Allah is not truthful to his claim of love with Allah”.
Rabia said, “This seems to be an egoistic statement, truthfulness
can be defined in a better way”. Shafiq Balkhi said, “That person
is not truthful to his claim of love with Allah who does not enjoy
the pain given by Allah.” Rabia said, “This statement also reflects
pride, one must define truthfulness more properly”. Malik bin
Dinar said, “One who is not thankful to Allah upon the pain
given by Him is not truthful to his claim of love with Allah.”
Rabia proceeded, “One must be so much engrossed in the
observation of his Beloved Allah that he forgets all his pains,
otherwise he is not truthful to his claim of love with Allah.”
Faqeer Bahoo says to all these Saints, “One who does not forget
his ownself as well as the observation and drown completely in
the Divine Oneness is not truthful to his claim of love with
Allah.”
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It is related that once Shaikh Bayazid Bastami and Hazrat

Zunoon Misri came to meet the leader of Muslims Imam Azam
Abu Hanifa. Imam Azam asked his servant to clean and brighten
a plate, fill it with honey, put a hair upon it and then bring it to
them. The servant did so. Imam Azam asked the Saints to interpret
what do the plate, honey and hair symbolize. Shaikh Bayazid said,
“The paradise is cleaner and brighter than this plate, the blessings
of paradise are sweeter than honey and the Sirat bridge that leads
to the paradise is narrower than this hair”. Shaikh Zunoon Misri
interpreted, “Islam, the best religion by Allah is cleaner and brighter
than this plate, to be in the circle of Islam is sweeter than honey
but following Islam completely is finer than this hair.” Afterwards,
Imam Azam said, “The knowledge of Allah is brighter than this
plate, the propositions of Islamic jurisprudence are sweeter than
the honey and the subtleties of Divine knowledge are subtler
than the hair.” The servant of Imam Azam added, “Beholding the
faces of guests is brighter then this bright plate, serving them is
sweeter than honey and taking care of their heart‟s desires is
finer than the hair.” The writer of the book Nafay-ul-Muslimeen
writes, “Countenance of Saints is brighter than the bright place,
having love of Allah in heart is sweeter than the honey and
following the shariah of Prophet Mohammad perfectly is finer
than the hair.” Faqeer Bahoo answers to all of them, “Enjoying the
pleasures of paradise is the job of silly nafs, acquiring knowledge
without acting upon it is sheer unawareness, watching the faces of
guests is distraction, love without struggle to attain closeness of
the Beloved is harmful, stepping into Islam without truthfulness is
worse than hypocrisy, while the medium of Ism-e-Allah Zaat is
the brightest of all, the pleasure of observation of Divinity is
sweeter than honey and renouncing oneself to be Fana Fillah is
finer than the hair.”
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Meaning: O’ Bahoo! End of every job must be according to the

consent of the Beloved and for that one should acquire the essence
of His marifat, not the apparent knowledge which is like crust.
One day Allah said to Prophet Moses, “You should worship
me as I deserve to be worshipped. What special have you done
for Me?” Moses replied, “O’ Allah, I have offered prayers, kept
fasts, performed pilgrimage, given charity and acquired knowledge
for You.” Allah said, “O’ Moses! These worships are not for Me
but are meant to get the pleasures of paradise, provide comfort to
the nafs and get salvation from the hell fire.” Moses requested,
“Then what is your real worship?” Allah said, “My real worship
is to love Me selflessly and do My zikr with sincerity and
truthfulness.” Allah says:
Meaning: So (O’ Muslims), when you have completed your salat,

do the zikr of Allah (in all postures) standing, sitting and (lying
down) on your sides. (An-Nisa-103)
People like to learn the Islamic laws and jurisprudence so that
they can use this knowledge to earn money, but the secret zikr is
like a sword with which one can fight and win over the infidel
nafs.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! What is Faqr? It is to annihilate oneself. The

apparent knowledge only creates vanity and hypocrisy.
Meaning: Jealousy eats up the good deeds like the fire eats up
the wood.
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O’ Bahoo! What is the blessing that is superior to both the

worlds and better than the embellishment of gold and silver, yet
the common people are unaware of it? It is the knowledge that is
practised sincerely. It is the practice upon knowledge that grants
the marifat of Reality, then marifat leads one towards the Divine
Oneness. The Divine Oneness is then felt with every inhale and
exhale of breath, then each inhale and exhale grants the final and
special level of Faith i.e. Haq-ul-Yaqeen. At that special level of
faith one annihilates and becomes Fana Fillah reaching the station
of LaHoot in such a way that he is blessed with direct and
perfect beneficence of Allah. What is the perfect beneficence of
Allah? It is to engross ecstatically in Allah but follow the shariah
of Prophet Mohammad vigilantly, hence, the spiritual traveller
becomes a man of marifat, man of knowledge, man of Divine
Oneness, man of spiritual intoxication, man of gratitude, man of
Divine love, man of Ishq and a perfect unitarian206 who exactly
knows the will of Allah. Only Allah! Everything other than
Allah is lust.
Meaning: Knowledge is vast but life is too short, so in this short

life one must do what is the most important (i.e. attain the
closeness of Allah through the zikr of Allah and by travelling
spiritually towards Allah under the guidance of Murshid Kamil).
If the way to the inward is not opened upon the seeker through
any zikr, meditation, muraqbah or spiritual observation, neither
his belief is firm nor he is steadfast, then he should be ordered to
go to the shrine of an alive hearted Dervish, Faqeer, Ghaus or a
Qutb who all are blessed with eternal life. He should go there at
night or midnight or after midnight and recite whatever he has
learnt by heart from the Quran sitting at the footside of the grave
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One who perfectly believes in Oneness of Allah.
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or riding the grave as someone rides a horse. The soul of that

shrine would either take him spiritually to the holy assembly of
Prophet Mohammad with the speed of lightening or would
drown him in the Divine Oneness. However, this spiritual act
would be beneficial only when it is performed after the
permission and under the guidance of Murshid Kamil who is the
“O’lul-Amar” i.e. the man of command otherwise the seeker
would not find any benefit from it and it would go wasted. The
Holy Prophet said:
Meaning: When you are worried about your matters, seek help
from the sacred souls of shrines.
If the seeker is horrified of the grave and afraid to do this act,
then he is not the true seeker of Allah as he loves his own life.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Sacrifice your life happily to drink the

goblet of ecstasy of closeness with Allah. Listen to my advice
from heart.
Murshid is an embodiment of kindness, he is the confidant of
Divine secrets and the granter of Divine love to his disciples.
Murshid is like a sword, only that seeker may go near him who is
ready to behead himself. Murshid is like a knife, only that seeker
goes near him who can slaughter himself with his own hands.
Murshid is the angel of death like Izrail, only that seeker goes
near him whose life is not dear to him. Murshid is the house of
hunger, one who can bear starvation may go near him. Murshid
is like a gibbet, one who can hang himself till death may go near
him. Murshid is like fire, one who can burn his infidel nafs may
go near him. Whoever comes near Murshid with sincerity should
only keep in view the love of Murshid and must not check his
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good and bad. Detecting good and bad is the job of spies, not the
true seekers of Allah.
A Saint had thousand disciples, all of them had high spiritual
ranks. They were so powerful spiritually that they could offer
salat spreading their prayer mat upon running water. Someone
asked that Saint how many of those disciples were men of true
faith. The Saint said to him to go and verify himself. That man
remained among the group of disciples for a few days to verify
how many of them had true faith. Then he returned to the Saint
and told him that he found only forty among thousand disciples
having true faith. The Saint asked, “How many among those forty
were better than others?” The man replied, “Twenty”. The Saint
asked, “How many of those twenty were special?” He replied
“Ten”. The Saint asked, “Of those ten, how many can be
considered better”? He replied, “Five”. The Saint asked, “And
how many out of those five can be considered special?” The man
replied, “Only two, disciples like those two can rarely be found
on the whole earth.” The Saint said, “You do not have the
capability to judge the faith and level of the disciples. If those
two disciples give witness in my favour that would be enough to
get me punished (from Allah for not preparing any perfect
seeker).” It is almost impossible to find a truly capable disciple
who can be entrusted the Divine secrets. The disciples of this age
are escapists and seekers of the petty world.
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! The disciples of this age are mean and

courageless, they do not want to attain closeness of Allah.
We can find many so called Murshids who are like shopkeepers
(as they sell their beneficence), they are greedy and men of nafs
but the true disciple who is worthy and capable can be found
only one out of thousands. Allah says:
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Meaning: Obey Allah and obey the Prophet and the one who is
O’lul-Amar (the man of command i.e. the Murshid Kamil)
amongst you. (An-Nisa-59)
Murshid is like the commandment of Allah, the true seeker
obeys him and consumes his soul in the fire of his Ishq. Murshid
is like an ocean and the seeker is like a wave, neither the wave is
separated from ocean nor ocean from the wave. This is the case
of the seeker who has reached the level of Fana Fi Shaikh.
Murshid is like an eye while the true seeker is like the sense of
sight, neither sight can be separated from eye nor eye from the
sight. Knowledge is like honey while Faqr is like martyrdom, as
knowledge grants one an easy life, relaxations and comforts.
Knowledge is just an apparent and verbal effort while Faqr is to
bear starvation and consume one‟s soul.
Meaning: If your knowledge does not improve your inward (by

elevating you spiritually) then ignorance is better than such
knowledge.
The real knowledge grants salvation (from sins and wrong
innovations and eventually from the wrath of Allah) and
ignorance indulges one in the misery of sins, while Faqr is the
ocean of beneficence that flows in the heart and soul. A Saint
said, “The essence of ignorance is to trade with Satan, the
essence of knowledge is to get acquainted with the Rehman. The
essence of Faqr is to reach the Divine treasure present at the
station beyond time and space. While the essence (main aim) of
animals is to eat and save their live.” Faqeer Bahoo answers him
“The essence of knowledge lies in the eyes and tongue, the
essence of Faqr lies in the soul and core of the seeker of Allah,
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while the essence of ignorance lies in perplexed brain.” We seek

refuge of Allah from this. The Satan has darkened everyone‟s
heart and mind. Faqr begins with the Alif 207 of . Only Allah!
Everything other than Allah is lust. Alif means
meaning: “Divinity of the Unique Essence who is only One
worthy of worship.” Then, there should be four 208
(B) in
Faqr, first is the (B) of benediction of
meaning: “In the name of Allah the most Beneficent, the most
Merciful”, second is the (B) of base of Islam, third (B)
lays emphasis that bad deeds should be given up and fourth
(B) is to ban the sensual desires. Then, a seeker should acquire
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seven (T) i.e. (1) Turk (renunciation of the world) (2)
Tawakkal (trust upon Allah) (3) Takbeer-e-Tehreema (saying
and believing Allah-o-Akbar “Allah is the Greatest”) (4) Tawazeh
(humility) (5) Tasleem (submission to the will of Allah) (6)
Takabbar (arrogance) should be shunned (7) To be ready for
death and know the states one has to pass through in the grave.
Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. Had there been
no practitioner scholars and perfect Faqeers in the world, the
children would have been involved in playing, youth in arrogance
and sensuality while the elders in back biting and verbosity.
None would have refrained from useless fun and sport, sensuality
and back biting. Obedience lies in being quiet, zikr is meant to
create excitement in the heart while patience means to bear painful
afflictions. It is better to forget oneself than to sell oneself. A
Faqeer must have the inward capacity to absorb an ocean, he should
remain silent even if he is at the height of spiritual intoxication.
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First letter of Arabic alphabets. Alif actually refers to Ism-e-Allah in mystic terminology.
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Second letter of Arabic alphabets
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Third letter of Arabic alphabets
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Meaning: This book about the mystic secrets of Divinity has

been written in the reign of emperor Aurangzeb in 1085 Hijri.
The book Ain-ul-Faqr has been written by Sultan-ul-Arifeen
Sultan Bahoo Faqeer Fana Fillah Baqa Billah who is One with
Hoo. He is the son of Hazrat Bazayed and belongs to the tribe of
Awans, (presently) living at Dera Sarang Khan Baloch.
The spiritually blind people remain ignorant to the marifat of
Allah till death, what an irony!
Meaning: O’ Bahoo! What do I tell you about the reality of sinful

people. They have been involved in sins from generations.
The men of marifat bore countless pains but at last they found
Oneness with Allah.
Allah knows better about everything.
Meaning: O’ Allah! Forgive the one who wrote this book, who
kept this book, who read this book as well as the one who looked
towards it with good faith.
GLOSSARY
Aadmi Synonym of Insan in Persian, meaning: Son of

Adam, the human.
Abdal Rank of Saints
Ahad The One
Ahram The pilgrimage robe
Ain-ul-Faqr Faqr is the Divine way which leads to the
closeness and vision of Allah. “Ain-ul-Faqr”
means “The soul of Faqr”.
Ain-ul-Yaqeen Faith gained by observation
Akhiyar Rank of Saints
Alwahiyat Divinity
Amada Rank of Saints
Amal Actions, deeds
Ana The inner self of a human being has subtle layers
which are; qalb (inward or heart), the soul, the
sir‟r (the Divine secret), khafi (the Hidden, the
Divine Soul), Ana (The Divine Essence). Ana is
the inner most core which contains everything.
Arafat A plain fifteen miles to the east of Makkah
Arif The knower of Allah who prays Allah while
seeing Him. Gnostic
Arif Billah The knower of Allah who is One with Him
Autad Rank of Saints
Azan Call for salat
Azazeel Name of Satan
Baqa Billah Immortality with Allah after annihilation in Him
Bayat Oath of Allegiance-When a person becomes a
disciple, he hands over himself to his spiritual
guide in exchange of spiritual guidance after bayat.
This in fact is a pact between Allah and His slave
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which eternally bonds the Murshid with his
disciple.
Buraq The heavenly pagasus
Busst Busst is the involuntary state of expansion which
engulfs the heart with ineffable joy. It results from
the Divine disclosure of Jamal (Allah’s Compassion
and Beauty).
Darood Sharif Blessings and salutations upon the Holy Prophet.
Dirhams Currency of Arab
Fana Fi Shaikh Annihilated in the Murshid
Fana Fillah Annihilated in Allah
Fana-al-Fana Annihilation after annihilation
Fana Fi Faqr Annihilation in Faqr
Faqeer The mystic. True Faqeer is the one who travels the
path of Faqr and reaches it‟s ultimate destination
i.e. union with Allah. Perfect Faqeer is the Insan-
e-Kamil or Murshid Kamil.
Farz-e-Kifayah General obligation whose performance by an
adequate number absolves all.
Fiqah Jurisprudence
Gharib Literally “Gharib” means poor. According to
mystic terminology it refers to the Saints who have
nothing but Allah
Ghaus Rank of Saints
Hajj Pilgrimage
Haleem The Clement
Haqeeqat The Reality
Haq-ul-Yaqeen Faith gained by experience, this is the final level
of faith
Hilm Clemency
Hoo The Divine Essence. Zikr of „Hoo‟ is the most
powerful zikr of Allah which takes close to Him
most quickly. When the lover is annihilated in
Hoo, there remains no duality.
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Illiyin The dignified place where the souls of the pious
ones will be kept before they will be sent to
heaven on the doomsday.
Ilm Knowledge
Ilm-ul-Yaqeen Faith gained through knowledge
Imam The man who conducts salat of a group of people.
The Leader
Imam-e-Azam The great leader of Muslims, appellation of Imam
Abu Hanifa.
Insan True human
Insan-e-Kamil The Divine Universal Man
Ishq Intense Divine love
Ishq-e-Haqeeqi The love of Divine Reality
Ishq-e-Majazi The metaphorical love for the manifestation of
the Divine Reality i.e. Murshid Kamil.
Ism Name
Ism-e-Allah Personal name of Allah
Ism-e-Allah Zaat The Divine name which represents the Divine
Essence and all Divine attributes.
Ism-e-Azam Ism-e-Azam is the Divine word by saying which
with pure and perfect heart all the problems are
solved and treasures are gained. It is the most
powerful word and according to mystics it must
be Ism-e-Allah Zaat because no word can be
more powerful than .
Jabrut The world of souls or the connecting world.
Jalal Divine Wrath and Majesty
Jamal Divine Compassion and Beauty
Kalma tayyab Declaration of Islamic faith, meaning: There is no
one worthy of worship except Allah and
Mohammad is His Messenger.
Kalma-e-shahadat Muslim creed in the form of testimony.
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Khannas The slinking whisperer which distracts from the
right path by creating delusions in the heart.
Khanqah A place where Sufis reside to gain inward purity
and spiritual elevation under the supervision of a
perfect Murshid
Khatrat The satanic dangers.
Khurtum The intoxicating evil which distracts one by
making one addicted of a particular bad habit.
Kun Kun” is the Divine order. When Allah says
“Kun” (be) to anything, it is Fayakun (done
immediately).
La-haul A prayer for safety from the Satan
LaHoot The world of absolute Divinity.

Lamakan Station beyond time and space.
Majzoob Lost in Divine meditation. The mystic who
cannot tolerate the effects of Divine disclosure
and loses his senses.
Malakut The world of symbolic forms or the angelic
world.
Marifat Gnosis, the knowledge of Allah gained after His
closeness and vision
Masti Spiritual ecstasy
Mehboob Beloved
Mehmoodan Naseera Point of ultimate belovedness
Meraj Ascension of the Holy Prophet to Allah
Miskeen Literally “miskeen” means indigent or meek person
but mystically it refers to the Faqeer who stays
with Allah permanently, as “miskeen” is derived
from the word “sakin” which literally means
“stationary” or “staying at one place”.
Mohiyyuddin The title of Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir
Jilani. Mohiyyuddin means “One who revivified
the religion”.
Momin True believer.
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Muarif The Murshid whose marifat (gnosis) leads to the
marifat of Allah.
Munkar and Nakeer The angels who cross question the dead in grave.
Muraqbah Spiritual meditation and concentration
Murshid The spiritual guide
Murshid Kamil The accomplished and perfect spiritual guide
Musamma One who possesses the Ism (name) and Zaat (the
Essence) i.e. the person on whom the Ism is
applicable because he possesses all the attributes
of the Ism and Zaat.
Nafas Breath
Nafl Supererogatory prayer
Nafs The baser self of a person which traps him in
wrong desires and prevents him from travelling
towards Allah.
Nafs-e-ammarah The ill commanding inner self
Nafs-e-lawamah The repenting inner self
Nafs-e-mulhima The inspiring innerself which warns before
committing sin
Nafs-e-mutmaina The satisfied self which never inclines towards
sin or worldliness.
Nasut The physical world
Noor The Divine light
O’lul-Amar The man of command, Murshid Kamil or Insan-
e-Kamil
Paras The stone which turns everything to gold that
touches it.
Pas Infas Pas Infas means inhale and exhale
Pir Pir is synonym of Murshid, spiritual guide
Pir Dastageer Appellation of Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul
Qadir Jilani, meaning “The guide who holds the
hand and patronizes”.
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Qab-a-Qausain Point of ultimate nearness between Allah and His
beloved Prophet referred to as “Qab-a-Qausain” in
the Holy Quran which means “two bows length”.
Qabz Qabz is the spiritual state of contraction in which
the heart is firmly gripped by the fear of Allah. It
results due to the Divine disclosure of Jalal (Allah’s
Majesty and Wrath).
Qalb Heart or the inward
Qalb-e-muneeb The heart which has returned to Allah to have
union with Him
Qalb-e-saleem The perfect and flawless heart
Qalb-e-shaheed The heart which has found eternal presence
before Allah and is witnessing Him.
Qaroon “Korah” in the Bible
Qibla The direction of Kaaba, facing towards which the
Muslims offer salat.
Qudsi Hadith Words of Allah told by the Holy Prophet
Qutb Rank of Saints
Rakat A unit of salat. A set of standing, bowing and
prostration while offering salat.
Rehman Attributive name of Allah, meaning: The most
Compassionate, the most Beneficent.
Sadaqah Giving anything in any form in the way of Allah.
Sahw Sahw is the state of sobriety. It is returning from
the state of spiritual intoxication to oneself after
having been absent from oneself whilst intoxicated
with the love of the Divine Beloved.
Salat Prayer which is obligatory upon the Muslims to
say five times a day in particular manner
Shaddad A king who created an imitation of paradise
Shaikh Synonym for Murshid, spiritual guide
Shariah Shariah is the set of Islamic laws which includes
obligations like prayers, fasts, zakat, and hajj as
well as virtues like telling the truth, fulfilling
promises, veiling of women from strangers, helping
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the needy etc. Shariah also forbids evils like
making partners with Allah, cheating or lying
with others, theft, adultery, backbiting, blaming
others wrongly etc.
Sidra-tul-Muntaha Farthest Lote Tree of heaven
Sijjeen The disgraced place where the sinners will be
kept before sending them to hell on the
doomsday.
Sirat bridge The narrow bridge in hereafter that provides the
only approach to heaven.
Sukr Sukr is the state of spiritual intoxication. It is the
state of absence of self-awareness brought about
through a powerful spiritual influence such as
immersion in the zikr of Allah, attention of the
perfect Murshid, deep emotions of love for the
Divine Beloved.
Sultan King
Sunnah Ways of the Holy Prophet
Tajreed and Tafreed Tajreed and Tafreed are two levels before one
reaches Tauheed i.e. the Divine Oneness. Tajreed
means negation of everything other than Allah.
Tafreed means negation of one‟s ownself.
Takbeer-e-Tehreema The Takbeer i.e. “Allah-o-Akbar” by saying
which the salat starts.
Tareeqat Mysticism
Tasawur Contemplation
Tauheed Divine Oneness
Ummah Nation
Umra The pilgrimage performed in Makkah in days
other than the hajj days which are 9th and 10th of
Zilhajj.
Unitarian One who perfectly believes in Oneness of Allah.
Waham Waham is the inward state of esoteric connection
and spiritual conversation with Allah which is
possible only through the perfect Murshid.
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Wahdaniyat Oneness
Yakhfa The Divine light which is manifested as Noor of
Mohammad.
Zaat The Divine Essence
Zakat The obligatory charity
Zakir One who does zikr
Zikr Invocation
Zikr-e-Hamil The zikr which continues automatically
Zikr-e-Sultani The kingly zikr, the zikr of Hoo
Notes:
1. The Hadith is translated in two ways in the book. Where
it is referred to as the words and order of the Holy Prophet, it is translated
as “die before death”, while where it is referred to as a level in the way of
Faqr it is translated as “death before dying”.
2. Marifat means knowledge of Allah that is gained after having vision and
closeness of Allah. It is also a level in the way of Faqr whose preceding
levels are Shariat, Tareeqat and Haqeeqat. In the book, where marifat is
referred to as the knowledge of Allah, it is written with „m‟ and where it is
referred to as the level, it is written with „M‟.
3. Shariah is the set of Islamic laws which explain what a Muslim should do
and should not do to get the closeness of Allah. When a seeker of Allah
starts his journey towards Allah, first of all he has to follow the shariah
perfectly, only then he can proceed to next levels. So shariah is the first
and basic level. In the book wherever shariah is referred to as the set of
Islamic laws it is spelled as „shariah‟ but where it is referred to as the basic
level, it is spelled as „Shariat‟.
4. LaHoot is the world of Divinity. “Hoo” is the Divine Essence whose
closeness and marifat can be gained only after reaching LaHoot. Since
LaHoot is the world of „Hoo‟ so to differentiate it from other spiritual and
physical worlds it is written as „LaHoot‟ and „H‟ is capitalized to show
that it is the world of „Hoo‟.
5. The Divine Essence, the Divine Beloved, the Divine Reality, the Divine
Unity, the Beloved, the Reality, the Truth, the Eternal Essence, the
Eternal, Hoo, all refer to Allah.
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6. Fana Fillah, Baqa Billah, Fana Fi Rasool, Fana Fi Shaikh, Ilm-ul-Yaqeen,
Ain-ul-Yaqeen, Haq-ul-Yaqeen are specific levels, that is why their
initials are capitalized.
7. Becoming „One‟ with Allah is the final level of union with Allah, so
wherever it is referred, „One‟ is written with capital „O‟.
8. Capital letters are used with all the holy names such as Saints, Dervishes,
Arifs, Faqeers to highlight their holiness.
9. The reader must know about the original Persian text that Hazrat Sultan
Bahoo has used the Persian language that prevailed in his era so it‟s style
is different from the modern Persian language.

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AIN-UL-FAQR

English Translation with Persian Text

SULTAN-UL-FAQR PUBLICATIONS LAHORE

Ain-ul-Faqr (The soul of Faqr) is the most popular book by

Laqa, Sultan-ul-Waham, Deedar Bakhsh, Ain-ul-Arifeen and

spiritual status that no one can convey them fully. A meek

It is hoped that this precious book by Sultan Bahoo will be

Lahore Mrs. Ambreen Moghees Sarwari Qadri

Sultan-ul-Arifeen Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo was born on

Meaning: Bahoo‟s mother named him Bahoo because Bahoo has

Sultan Bahoo states in his books, “I searched for a Murshid1

The spiritual order of Hazrat Sakhi Sultan Bahoo is the Sarwari

Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani. There are two offshoots of Qadri

Meaning: For every true seeker of Allah I render my guidance. I

Noor-ul-Huda (Khurd) (22) Noor-ul-Huda (Kalan) (23) Taufeeq-

Meaning: All praises are for Almighty Allah, The Sustainer of

Meaning: He can be likened with none, He alone is All-Hearing

I have titled this book “Ain-ul-Faqr7”. It guides all the

Meaning: I was a hidden treasure, I desired to be recognized so I

Meaning: Those who deny Our revelations, We shall soon lead

Meaning: Every way that is rejected by shariah15 is heretical.

Meaning: One who seeks anything (other than Allah) finds no

Meaning: I have annihilated myself in the Oneness of Allah in

Meaning: O’ seeker of Allah! You must observe Oneness of

Meaning: Whatever is contained in the vessel, only that comes

Meaning: O’ Allah! You are concealed in the heart of every

Meaning: Whoever comes to Your court with humility never

Meaning: First find a companion then set on a journey.

Meaning: One who has no Shaikh25 has no faith.

Meaning: One who has no Shaikh, Satan surrounds him.

Meaning: Verily, Allah neither observes your physical appearance

Meaning: Whoever enters it, attains safety. (Aal-e-Imran-97)

One who possesses the Divine name (due to ultimate Divine

Meaning: Do you command others for piety and forget yourselves,

ultimate union with Allah, there is no need of hard struggle and

The seeker of Allah wraps the cover of Ism29-e-Allah

Meaning: Whoever recognizes himself, recognizes his Lord. One

Meaning: After thirty years Khaqani realized that a moment in

There are some Faqeers who are absorbed in the zikr of ,

Meaning: Whatever is contained in the vessel, only that comes

Meaning: Do the zikr of your Holy Lord when you forget

confer upon them higher spiritual levels by granting them the

Meaning: Hold the hand of a true man (i.e. perfect Murshid) so

Meaning: Satan cannot take my form. No doubt! Whoever saw

Meaning: Surely, you (Satan) shall have no power over my true

Meaning: O’ Bahoo! Whoever watches us, avoids us because we

Meaning: Angels do not enter the house where a dog is kept.

Meaning: The love of world and religion cannot sustain in one

Meaning: Your tongue is reciting the name of Allah while your

Meaning: I seek refuge of Allah from Faqr39 which brings

Meaning: They will be humble towards the believers (but) strict

Meaning: And We have indeed honoured the children of Adam.

Allah has created you for His worship and servitude as He

Meaning: And I created the jinns and human beings solely to

Meaning: One who intended to worship after attaining to the final

Meaning: I behold the unparalleled Allah after being beheaded

Meaning: Unless one annihilates oneself, one remains trapped in

Meaning: When I see things, I just observe Allah in them because

Meaning: I am as My slave perceives Me, now it is upto him

Meaning: And (I am) within you, can‟t you see. (Al-Zariyat-21)

Meaning: Donkeys are created in the form of men.

Meaning: Whoever gave his life to Allah, procured Ism-e-Allah.

Meaning: Meditate upon His signs not upon His Essence.